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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How could the importance of Tang's and his colleague's roles be measured in Chapter 16?
(a) Who was promoted within the ranks.
(b) How many pairs of pajamas they received.
(c) How they were treated by the party.
(d) By the salary raises they received.

2. What were "elephant's intestines?"
(a) Long tubes of rolled cotton.
(b) Moneys cooked in a pot.
(c) The belts on the guerrillas' pajamas.
(d) Poisonous snakes.

3. What did Thieu force university and high school students to do in 1970?
(a) Attend military and training exercises.
(b) Take jobs within the military.
(c) Stay in school at all costs.
(d) Refuse visits with family and friends.

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

5. Why did Tang and his wife move back to Saigon in Chapter 24?
(a) They missed their family.
(b) The revoluionaries were in the city.
(c) To plan an escape.
(d) They were bored in the country.

6. What nickname did Madame Phat receive after she spoke of her debt of gratitude to the Party?
(a) Keeper of Bourgeois Reality.
(b) Guardian of the Pagoda.
(c) Proletariat Phat.
(d) Humorless Madame Phat.

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

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

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

10. What was the NLF's response to Nixon's "Vietnamization"?
(a) Step up the use of arms.
(b) Retreat and lay low for a number of years.
(c) Move the entire NLF organization to Hanoi.
(d) Set up a formal NLF governmental structure in Saigon.

11. Where did the NLF establish a new headquarters after America's Cambodian attack?
(a) Komchai Meas.
(b) Krek.
(c) Kandol.
(d) Kratie.

12. How many people have been freed from arrest since Tang's retirement in the summer of 1976, to his knowledge?
(a) Three hundred.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Three hundred thousand.
(d) None.

13. What did Tang and the nationalists feel the Paris agreement would give them an opportunity to do as described in Chapter 18?
(a) Fight externally for a settlement.
(b) Get an agreement on paper.
(c) Proselytize to the Saigon regime.
(d) Increase the fears of partnership with the PRG.

14. What was the motto for Dung's opportune moment of a campaign on the assault of Saigon in April, 1974?
(a) "Human Liberation for the People."
(b) "Marvelous Speed, Boldness, Surprise, and Certain Victory."
(c) "Public Enthusiasm and Western Humiliation At All Costs."
(d) "Fighting and Talking."

15. 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?
(a) Only 1.
(b) 15 or more.
(c) About 10.
(d) Nearly 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tang and his colleagues find to be the necessary connection between Marxism and independence?

2. What did Hai Thuan, a Southern cadre of the Vietminh in its war against the French, do in Chapter 22?

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

4. What happened when the city of Hue was taken by the NLF and Northern troops in January, 1968?

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

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