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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Tang taken in Chapter 9 when two well-dressed men visited him at his office in the sugar company?
(a) To Hanoi.
(b) Police headquarters.
(c) A restaurant in Saigon.
(d) To the airport.

3. What did Tang's father ask him in a letter towards the end of 1951?
(a) For forgiveness.
(b) To join the army and fight for Saigon.
(c) To return to his ex-wife and child.
(d) To return home and help him financially.

4. What did Tang suspect about the historical documents used in the infancy of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam?
(a) They were poorly devised.
(b) There might be copyright infringement problems in the future.
(c) They were written by spies from Diem's regime.
(d) They were entwined with Ho Chi Minh's overall political insights.

5. What were Agrovilles?
(a) A method of increasing revenue for farmers.
(b) Villages in which to house captured enemies.
(c) A government project of self-contained villages.
(d) A capitalistic branch of society.

6. Where did President Thao lead the alliance delegation in the spring of 1969?
(a) A skirmish with the secret police in Saigon.
(b) A meeting with President Johnson.
(c) To the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(d) A visit to Hanoi.

7. What did Tang's wife do to help lessen his prison sentence in Chapter 9?
(a) She divorced him in hopes he would fight to be released.
(b) She bribed the tribunal president.
(c) She wrote a letter to the president.
(d) She informed the foreign press of Tang's prediciment.

8. After the overthrow of Diem, what did Tang become director-general of?
(a) The NLF.
(b) The Saigon government.
(c) The national sugar company.
(d) The self-determination movement.

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

10. Where did the leadership of the North place its focus in the 1966 resolution?
(a) On getting better weaponry.
(b) On mobilizing the masses.
(c) Upon young people.
(d) On Tang, himself.

11. Why did Tang and his compatriots refuse the radio being offered to them by the Americans readying them for a prisoner exchange?
(a) They thought it might contain an electronic homing device.
(b) Radios were considered disrespectful in their religion.
(c) They did not want any gifts from the enemy.
(d) They feared it might contain a bomb.

12. When Tang was arrested in Chapter 10, what was he accused of?
(a) Being too wealthly.
(b) Conspiring to assassinate the president.
(c) Being a Communist Party member.
(d) Being head of the NLF.

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

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

15. What did Nguyen Van Thieu expect of Nixon and Kissinger as indicated in Chapter 12?
(a) They would accept Communist victory.
(b) They would not abandon him.
(c) They would step up the war to involve more countries.
(d) They would become bitter enemies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Tang forced to swallow during his imprisonment in Chapter 10, damaging his digestive system?

2. What event pushed aside Tang's trepidations concerning military action against Diem?

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

4. How did Tang meet his second wife?

5. What happened to Diem and Nhu during the coup in Chapter 6?

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