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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the most popular weaponry used in the Front?
(a) Chinese AK-47 rifles.
(b) B-52s.
(c) Grenades and mines.
(d) M-16 rifles.

2. What did Tang and his colleagues find to be the necessary connection between Marxism and independence?
(a) There was no necessary connection.
(b) The war against imperialism.
(c) The role of the intelligentsia in the national revolution.
(d) The interdependence of class struggle.

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

4. Why did Tang accept an appointment as director of the National Rubber Industry in Chapter 24?
(a) He needed to work for money.
(b) His wife insisted he take the job.
(c) Because it made an excellent cover for him.
(d) He was bored and wanted prestige.

5. What did Article 9 of the Paris Accords call for the creation of?
(a) A humanitarian ideal of a Socialist nature.
(b) A Korean-style equilibrium vision.
(c) A greater role of the Saigon government in negotiations.
(d) A National Council of Reconciliation.

6. What directives emerged from a COSVN/PRG meeting held in Chapter 22?
(a) A new flag must be created.
(b) A new political song must be written.
(c) All previous Saigon regime leaders must be executed.
(d) Everyone from the old regime must undergo a rigorous curriculum.

7. Why were both Nixon and Kissinger unable to formulate policies that would frustrate the strategies of the North?
(a) They did not possess enough weaponry to overcome the North.
(b) The American press was against them.
(c) They could not think about the war in the same way as their enemy could.
(d) The policies involved only air raids.

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

9. The taking of Saigon by Northern forces hinged upon the fall of which centrally located city?
(a) Phuoc Long.
(b) Ban Me Thuot.
(c) Da Nang.
(d) Hanoi.

10. Who was the American Ambassador trying to arrange the appearance of a real election in Saigon in Chapter 17?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Henry Kissinger.
(c) Ellsworth Bunker.
(d) George McGovern.

11. Who does Tang marry in the summer of 1976?
(a) His ex-wife.
(b) A Communist Party bureaucrat.
(c) A close family friend of Trinh Dinh Thao.
(d) A relative of Madame Thieu's.

12. Who was the only professional sailor on board the boat Tang and his wife escaped on?
(a) There was none.
(b) Kiet.
(c) Ton.
(d) Ton's cousin.

13. Where does Tang and his wife live after he decides to go into seclusion??
(a) On the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(b) Go Vap.
(c) Upstate New York.
(d) Kratie.

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

15. 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 city was taken peacefully.
(d) The NLF gave the directive to carry out massacres there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What set the PRG leaders apart from the rest of the organization?

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?

3. What does elephant taste like according to Tang?

4. What American events attracted the attention of the nationalists in 1973?

5. What was Tang's last official function in Algeria?

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