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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does elephant taste like according to Tang?
(a) Tasteless and tough as old shoes.
(b) Like a rare delicacy.
(c) Like chicken.
(d) A tasty morsel if eaten quickly.

2. What was Tang's last official function in Algeria?
(a) Congratulating the Khmer representative on the victory in Phnom Penh.
(b) Celebrating a victory with Prince Sihanouk.
(c) Going to the funeral of Queen Kosamak.
(d) Having tea with Madame Binh.

3. What American events attracted the attention of the nationalists in 1973?
(a) Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations.
(b) The Watergate scandal.
(c) The re-election of Nixon.
(d) A book written by Henry Kissinger.

4. Where did the Northern escape routes directly lead to?
(a) The Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(b) Cambodia's Pre Veng Province.
(c) Kratie.
(d) Laos.

5. How could the significance of the Alliance and the PRG be substantially reenhanced?
(a) In the event of a political compromise.
(b) If a decisive military outcome is reached.
(c) If the Alliance and the PRG overtake the COSVN.
(d) If the ARVN wins the war.

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

7. Why was the main goal of the Northern forces in 1972 to get the U.S. out of Vietnam?
(a) To show the world that America was oppressive.
(b) To isolate the Thieu regime, bringing domestic opposition to them.
(c) To stimulate Vietnam's economy.
(d) To stop the heavy hits of the B-52 bombs.

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

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

10. What did Tang hope to obtain upon his trip as part of the PRG's delegation at Algiers' independence celebration?
(a) Material aid for a propaganda campaign.
(b) Help with Mme. Binh's world tour.
(c) Juridicial reforms in Algeria.
(d) Support for the Khmer resistance.

11. 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) Kept their distance from the PRG.
(c) Refused to meet with any Vietnamese parties.
(d) Held a dinner in honor of the PRG.

12. Who was responsible for Tang's daughter, Loan, being able to do to college in America?
(a) His brother, Quynh.
(b) President Tho.
(c) President Thieu's wife.
(d) Ho Chi Minh.

13. What effect did America's invasion into Cambodia have on the NLF?
(a) A renewed spirit to fight the enemy.
(b) They gained the support of Cambodians.
(c) It had no effect.
(d) Acute physical and emotional hardship.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon Tang's return to Hanoi in Chapter 20, what does he encounter in the city he has not visited for thirty years?

2. Where did the NLF establish a new headquarters after America's Cambodian attack?

3. In Chapter 21, what did Tang discover when he arrived in Saigon and telephoned his parents at his older brother's home?

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

5. What was the motto for Dung's opportune moment of a campaign on the assault of Saigon in April, 1974?

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