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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As long as American strength supported the Saigon government, how did the NLF feel about the idea of total victory?
(a) Determined to win.
(b) A soon-to-be-accomplished goal.
(c) Unaccomplishable.
(d) Wistful and vague.

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

3. 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) Kept their distance from the PRG.
(b) Refused to meet with any Vietnamese parties.
(c) Held a dinner in honor of the PRG.
(d) Offered Tang a huge loan for the country.

4. What happened when the city of Hue was taken by the NLF and Northern troops in January, 1968?
(a) Citizens ran away and the city was nearly empty.
(b) Many people were murdered due to inadequate discipline.
(c) The NLF gave the directive to carry out massacres there.
(d) The city was taken peacefully.

5. In the elections of 1976, what did the police do to anyone who did not vote?
(a) Threatened their life.
(b) Deported them.
(c) Brought them to the voting centers.
(d) Confiscated their ration card.

6. What was life like for the PRG in general?
(a) Life was generally good and comfortable.
(b) The elevated status of the PRG enabled them to live like kings.
(c) Often give up for a bribe, all members lived in fear of one another.
(d) They lived like hunted animals.

7. 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) The prospect of escape by boat.
(c) An opportunity to showcase Tang's war efforts.
(d) They were able to sell their cottage at a profit.

8. What statement did Henry Kissinger make in a 1968 "Foreign Affairs" article?
(a) "Winning is only half the battle."
(b) "A standard army wins if it does not lose."
(c) "Even though we run like hell, we'll still win."
(d) "Guerrillas win if they don't lose."

9. What nearly derailed Tang and dozens of others with him of leaving the country by boat?
(a) The pirates on the ocean spotted them.
(b) A government soldier on a fishing boat grew suspicious.
(c) The boat hit a sand bar and got stuck.
(d) A monsoon hit them.

10. What did Tang bring to the attention of DRV Prime Minister Dong in Chapter 22?
(a) Prime Minister Dong's need for a new set of laws.
(b) The development of a code of law.
(c) How the end of arrests has taken place.
(d) The lawless rampage that was taking place.

11. What were most of the Southern guerrillas pressing hard for in Chapter 18?
(a) A fundamental split in the revolution.
(b) Le Duan's expertise in manipulation during Paris talks.
(c) Internal propaganda.
(d) A commitment to reconciliation.

12. What were all of the attendants aware of at the PRG meeting in January of 1972?
(a) Their struggle was reaching a turning point.
(b) That the Soviets and China were pulling away.
(c) They were losing the war.
(d) Cambodia would take over Vietnam.

13. What did Tang do at the International Association of Democratic Jurists in Algeria to insult the Soviets?
(a) Denounced the Soviets stance in a speech.
(b) Made a rude comment to a Soviet delegate and tried to retract it.
(c) Refused to shake hands with the Soviet delegate to the conference.
(d) Walked away from a statement made by the Soviet delegate.

14. What did the term "neutralize" mean within the context of the Phoenix Program?
(a) To leave alone.
(b) To let sleep.
(c) To save at all costs.
(d) To kill.

15. What was Nixon's "Vietnamization" as the NLF saw it?
(a) A way to strike at a peace settlement for North and South.
(b) A step-up of American ground troops.
(c) An attempt to portray Vietnam as a civil conflict.
(d) A political maneuver to stop opposition to the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were "elephant's intestines?"

2. What did Nguyen Van Thieu do upon his foreign minister's signing of a peace accord?

3. What was the main goal of the Provisional Revolutionary Government, organized in 1969?

4. Where does Tang and his wife live after he decides to go into seclusion??

5. Who was responsible for Tang's daughter, Loan, being able to do to college in America?

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