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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Albert Thao believe about Diem's leadership in Vietnam?
(a) He was a puppet for the Americans.
(b) He was moving toward peaceful unification of north and south.
(c) Diem would hold fair elections in Vietnam.
(d) He was a strong, independent leader.

2. What term does Truong Nhu Tang use to describe his childhood?
(a) Protected isolation.
(b) Wealthy communists.
(c) Family cocoon.
(d) Family of eight.

3. What job did Tang take at the Societe Sucriere?
(a) Director General.
(b) Head Accountant.
(c) Chief Opearting Officer.
(d) Public Relations Manager.

4. What punishment did the tribunal bestow upon Tang, besides prison, that may have interfered deeply with Tang's credibility within Vietnamese society?
(a) A hefty monetary fine.
(b) His driver's license was revoked.
(c) Suspension from his job.
(d) A newspaper editorial.

5. 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) The Americans were trading prisoners of Chinese ethnicity.
(b) The northern army was close to winning the war.
(c) Madame Dang's disappearance and two prisoner executions.
(d) Everyone was destined for execution.

6. What did Tang do when he was drafted by the Bao Dai government?
(a) He left the country.
(b) He became a teacher wherever he was needed.
(c) He enrolled in college.
(d) He joined the revolution in Cambodia.

7. 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 relocate populations into more modern, better housing for their own good.
(c) Diem wanted the villagers to recognize his power.
(d) To make the tribespeople more accessible to government control.

8. What did some local Mytho guerillas do to Albert Thao?
(a) Shot him on the spot.
(b) Threw him into the river to drown.
(c) Threatened his family with death.
(d) Recruited him as a spy.

9. What religion was Ngo Dinh Diem connected with?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Confucianism.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Catholicism.

10. Why were Tang and a fellow pharmacy student, Miss Ly, chosen to have tea with Ho Chi Minh?
(a) He chose them at random.
(b) They were the brightest students.
(c) They were from the south.
(d) He saw them as future leaders.

11. What was Diem preoccupied with throughout his regime?
(a) Internal disloyalty.
(b) Americans.
(c) His brother's welfare.
(d) The farmers and villages.

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

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

14. By the end of 1958, who were basically the only people who supported Diem's regime?
(a) Northern Catholic refugees and those who profited from Diem's schemes.
(b) The tribespeople from the mountains.
(c) The French.
(d) Nationalist-minded Vietnamese.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Tang's father send Tang's fiance and her father to Paris?

2. When Tang met Ho Chi Minh, what was his first impression of the president?

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

4. How did Tang find his time in jail to be?

5. When Ho Chi Minh explained Vietnamese history to Tang, what did he say about the French?

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