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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 wife ultimately do about her marriage in Chapter 3?
(a) She returned to Tang and had her child.
(b) She left the marriage to obey her father.
(c) She commited suicide.
(d) She stayed married to Tang through letters.

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

3. 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) He saw them as future leaders.
(c) They were from the south.
(d) They were the brightest students.

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

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

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

7. How did Albert Thao become a trusted member of Diem's administration?
(a) He changed his political views completely.
(b) He was able to bribe imporant officials.
(c) He was thought of as a repentant former communist by a priest.
(d) He trusted no one.

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

9. What occurred on November 11, 1960?
(a) Khiem refuseed to stop a revolt.
(b) Albert Thao was discovered to be a spy.
(c) Diem's fears of a revolt were realized.
(d) Diem's brother, Nhu, was killed.

10. What did Tang's father threaten to do in Chapter 3?
(a) Restrict his passport.
(b) Stop sending him new clothing.
(c) Commit suicide out of shame.
(d) Cut off Tang's funds.

11. 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) Villages were set up there to control the people.
(d) The Vietcong could not infiltrate the area.

12. What was one of the main tenets of Tang's manifesto for the self-determination movement?
(a) America should not intervene in Vietnam.
(b) Henry Cabot Lodge should resign from office.
(c) Ho Chi Minh would be allowed to lead North and South Vietnam.
(d) People living in villages would move to the mountains.

13. 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 joined the revolution in Cambodia.
(d) He enrolled in college.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Albert Thao's family get to protect him from harm?

2. Where was Tang taken in Chapter 9 when two well-dressed men visited him at his office in the sugar company?

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

4. What did Tang's father decide to do when violence began to erupt in Saigon in 1945?

5. Who was the first choice for a leader of the South Vietnamese nationalist movement, though he did not accept the role?

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