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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Tang's early mobilization committee in Chapter 7 send Nguyen Van Hieu to Hanoi?
(a) To discuss assassination plans for Diem.
(b) To plan a mass emigration to America.
(c) To gain support from their Northern compatriots.
(d) To rid themselves of Hieu.

2. Why were the Montagnards' village populations forced by Diem's troops out of the mountains and into the valleys, separating them from their ancestral lands and graves?
(a) To gain control of the guerrilla troops.
(b) To make the tribespeople more accessible to government control.
(c) Diem wanted the villagers to recognize his power.
(d) To relocate populations into more modern, better housing for their own good.

3. When Tang was in solitary confinement in the national police headquarters, what saved him from lapsing into permanent catatonia?
(a) The prison grapevine.
(b) The books he was given to read.
(c) The end of torture.
(d) The twice-daily meals.

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

5. Who did Albert Thao's family get to protect him from harm?
(a) Vinh Long.
(b) Diem.
(c) Tang's family.
(d) Bishop Thuc.

6. What school subject did Tang enjoy more so than chemistry?
(a) French.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) History.
(d) Music.

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

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

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

10. When Tang met Ho Chi Minh, what was his first impression of the president?
(a) He was inappropriately dressed for the occasion.
(b) He was weak and sickly.
(c) He blended in with the other dignitaries.
(d) He was dignified and strong.

11. Who did Tang's father allow his sons to interact with outside of the home?
(a) Merchants in the town and people in school.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Neighborhood boys and teachers.
(d) No one.

12. Why was the Northern Vietnamese government fearful of American involvement in the fighting in Vietnam in the early 1960s?
(a) The Chinese would then become involved.
(b) Chances for a peaceful, negotiated settlement would vanish.
(c) A nuclear bomb attack was anticipated.
(d) They had no firearms for a counterattack.

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

14. In Chapter 3, what did Tang become more and more involved with in Paris?
(a) His fiance from Vietnam.
(b) Agitation against the war.
(c) His pharmacy studies.
(d) British culture.

15. Who was the first choice for a leader of the South Vietnamese nationalist movement, though he did not accept the role?
(a) Nguyen Huu Tho.
(b) Michael Van Vi.
(c) Trinh Dinh Thao.
(d) Tran Kim Quan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Ngo Dinh Nhu?

2. What movement did Tang decide to join after his meeting with Ho Chi Minh?

3. What role did the leading figure of the Committee to Defend the Peace, Dr. Pham Van Huyen, play in Diem's government in 1954?

4. When a revolution in Saigon took place in 1945, which group did Tang join?

5. Why did the province of Ben Tre become peaceful as opposed to its violent reputation?

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