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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Tang undertake a long trip to Dresden, East Germany in Chapter 20?
(a) To gather with the Communist Party leaders for a meeting.
(b) To recuperate from illnesses.
(c) To have a long-awaiting vacation.
(d) To be trained in new techniques of warfare.

2. What did the vice president of the Chinese State Council do concerning the PRG in order to express their feelings about Hanoi's ongoing affiliation with the Soviets?
(a) Offered Tang a huge loan for the country.
(b) Held a dinner in honor of the PRG.
(c) Kept their distance from the PRG.
(d) Refused to meet with any Vietnamese parties.

3. What did Tang ask PRG President Phat concerning the directives established at the COSVN/PRG meeting in Chapter 22?
(a) He asks to help reinvent the directives.
(b) He asks if he needs to be sent to a reeducation camp.
(c) He asks why the people are taking so long to be reeducated.
(d) He wants to know if he has time for a series of word games.

4. What did Tang do for his brother, Bich, in Chapter 22?
(a) He got him a position in the politburo.
(b) He wrote letters to him, giving him advice.
(c) He had him released from detention.
(d) He tried to get him released from detention but failed.

5. Why was an advisory Council of Elders formed during the Provisional Revolutionary Government's (PRG) congress?
(a) As an antidote to propaganda.
(b) As an afterthought with little meaning.
(c) To appease the older members.
(d) To reconcile tradition with revolution.

6. When Tang revisited Hanoi in 1974, what did he note about the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
(a) Transportation was non-existant.
(b) The original paths had grown dense with jungle foilage.
(c) The route had become a system of two-lane roads.
(d) The dirt paths were unchanged from years past.

7. Why were the dates of June 6th through 8th chosen to organize the congress for the Provisional Revolutionary Government?
(a) To upstage a Nixon-Thieu meeting being held on Midway Island.
(b) To honor Ho Chi Minh's birthday.
(c) To commemmorate the founding of the NLF.
(d) The dates are anniversaries of grandparents' deaths.

8. What new means of transportation was Vietnam inundated with in 1969 and 1970?
(a) Itallian bicycles.
(b) Japanese motorbikes.
(c) Mopeds.
(d) Volkswagens.

9. On the day of celebration at Independence Palace Square to celebrate the Vietnamese victory at last, which military units were the last to appear in the parade?
(a) The Democratic Republic of North Vietnam.
(b) The Vietcong units.
(c) The Soviet Army.
(d) The North Vietnamese Army.

10. How did Nixon and Kissinger justify the Tet offensive bombings and invasion of Cambodia?
(a) It increased American unity.
(b) A propaganda war of words was won.
(c) It brought an end to the American anti-war protests.
(d) It gained an essential year of time.

11. According to Tang in Chapter 16, how did America regard the country of Vietnam?
(a) With a view toward economic progress.
(b) As an independent nation.
(c) As a country of people to be saved.
(d) As a pawn of strategy.

12. Why did the PRG believe that having Tang's brothers working for the South Vietnamese government might help their cause?
(a) Tang could be viewed as a double agent.
(b) Family ties in the government gave the public reassurance about Tang.
(c) One of the brothers could become a spy.
(d) A brother's family could be held hostage in the future.

13. Where were Tang's brothers, Quynh and Bich, sent on June 16, 1975?
(a) To Hanoi.
(b) To Saigon General Hospital.
(c) To a Soviet camp.
(d) To their own reeducation points.

14. What break came to Tang and his wife via his wife's brother-in-law?
(a) A job prospect without being in the government.
(b) They were able to sell their cottage at a profit.
(c) The prospect of escape by boat.
(d) An opportunity to showcase Tang's war efforts.

15. What position in the Provisional Revolutionary Government did Tang receive?
(a) Cabinet Secretary.
(b) Foreign Minister.
(c) Minister of the Interior.
(d) Minister of Justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. As long as American strength supported the Saigon government, how did the NLF feel about the idea of total victory?

2. When the Ho Chi Minh trail was originally blazed in 1959, how many kilometers were the fighters expected to be able to advance every day?

3. Why did Tang and his wife move back to Saigon in Chapter 24?

4. How could the importance of Tang's and his colleague's roles be measured in Chapter 16?

5. What nearly derailed Tang and dozens of others with him of leaving the country by boat?

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