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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Twenty-two through Twenty-four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role did the leading figure of the Committee to Defend the Peace, Dr. Pham Van Huyen, play in Diem's government in 1954?
(a) Chief judicial adviser.
(b) Comissioner of refugees.
(c) Head of state.
(d) Professor of historical societies.

2. Who was Tao Thao?
(a) An enemy of the alliance.
(b) A legendary king in China.
(c) A North Vietnamese general.
(d) A refugee from the South.

3. What military position did Diem assign to Albert Thao?
(a) Sergeant.
(b) Major.
(c) Private.
(d) General.

4. What nearly derailed Tang and dozens of others with him of leaving the country by boat?
(a) The boat hit a sand bar and got stuck.
(b) A monsoon hit them.
(c) The pirates on the ocean spotted them.
(d) A government soldier on a fishing boat grew suspicious.

5. What was the first job Tang got in France after his parents stopped sending him money?
(a) Bus Driver.
(b) Political Assistant.
(c) Professor.
(d) Dishwasher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does elephant taste like according to Tang?

2. In Chapter 3, what did Tang become more and more involved with in Paris?

3. How were Phat's commandos able to lure Tho's prison guards away in Chapter 7?

4. What did Article 9 of the Paris Accords call for the creation of?

5. What American events attracted the attention of the nationalists in 1973?

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