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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group was Tang named as president of at the age of forty-three?
(a) Ho Chi Minh's Youth.
(b) The Youth Movement.
(c) The Vanguard Youth.
(d) Young People's Association of South Vietnam.

2. What was Chi Hoa?
(a) Tang's wife's name.
(b) Tang's sugar company.
(c) A prison.
(d) A political meeting place.

3. What did Tang's father decide to do when violence began to erupt in Saigon in 1945?
(a) Ship his sons off to Paris.
(b) Move the family to Thailand.
(c) Join the armed forces.
(d) Evacuate the family to the provinces.

4. What did Tang do upon receiving his second draft notice?
(a) He joined the national navy.
(b) He showed up for active duty.
(c) He escaped to England.
(d) He reacquainted himself with Ho Chi Minh.

5. What was Diem's To Cong campaign?
(a) A well-organized center of Diem's opposition.
(b) Jailing and execution of communist sympathizers.
(c) Diem's long run for political office.
(d) Nhu's revolutionary movement.

6. Which of the following was NOT an objective of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam?
(a) Build an independent economy.
(b) Overthrow the Diem regime.
(c) Bring unity to the different classes of people in the South.
(d) Bring in American advisers to help with the movement's actions.

7. What does "tin," a basic ethical principle in Confucianism, refer to?
(a) Love.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Loss of face.
(d) Faithfulness.

8. Why did the province of Ben Tre become peaceful as opposed to its violent reputation?
(a) The Vietcong could not infiltrate the area.
(b) Villages were set up there to control the people.
(c) Albert Thao became its province chief.
(d) Diem bombed the area.

9. Who did Tang's wife end up bribing in order to get Tang transferred to the national police headquarters?
(a) Diem.
(b) Prime Minister Quat.
(c) The butcher.
(d) Ba Tra.

10. What was the best-known Ho Chi Minh slogan?
(a) "Use your knowledge to build the future of our country."
(b) "The people have come together in a struggle for national liberation."
(c) "Our country was doubly exploited."
(d) "Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty."

11. What event pushed aside Tang's trepidations concerning military action against Diem?
(a) Tang believed a military victory could be possible.
(b) Politcal action would be enough to push Diem aside.
(c) The northern government announced its readiness to act to liberate the south.
(d) The Americans decided to discontinue their relationship with Diem.

12. What is COSVN which is described in Chapter 11?
(a) The Northern Vietnamese army forces.
(b) The North Vietnamese politburo.
(c) A leadership group made up of delegates from the Worker's Party.
(d) The National Liberation Front system.

13. What did Tang do in regards to his pharmaceutical studies in Chapter 3?
(a) He graduated and moved on to other things.
(b) He added political science on as a double major.
(c) He abandoned them.
(d) He failed the courses.

14. What became the chief news item on the prison grapevine after an ethnic Chinese labor leader was shot by prison guards and survived her wounds?
(a) Madame Dang's disappearance and two prisoner executions.
(b) Everyone was destined for execution.
(c) The northern army was close to winning the war.
(d) The Americans were trading prisoners of Chinese ethnicity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Thuy Ba?

2. What occurred on November 11, 1960?

3. What did the flag devised for the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam later become famous as?

4. What punishment did the tribunal bestow upon Tang, besides prison, that may have interfered deeply with Tang's credibility within Vietnamese society?

5. Why did the NLF Committee meet in 1961 during Tet?

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