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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what way did the Saigon forces utilize the PRG's relative passivity to their advantage in Chapter 18?
(a) The Saigon forces had no way to gain advantages due to the PRG's passiveness.
(b) They fought to gain land and population in PRG areas of control.
(c) They publicly agreed with the PRG's stance.
(d) The PRG's passivity was ignored completely.

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 21, what did Tang discover when he arrived in Saigon and telephoned his parents at his older brother's home?
(a) His brother, Quynh, was in the United States.
(b) His mother was ill.
(c) The police had arrested his wife.
(d) His father had died.

7. What was the PRG opposed to?
(a) Revolutionary justice as performed in Hue.
(b) Being linked to Hanoi.
(c) Troop withdrawals by Nixon.
(d) Including people from Central Vietnam in their group.

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

9. 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) They were bored in the country.
(d) To plan an escape.

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

11. What was the reason behind the National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord as described in Article 9 of the Paris Accords?
(a) To resolve Vietnam's domestic problems through political means.
(b) To engage Vietnam's military operatives.
(c) To isolate Thieu.
(d) To have Thieu retreat from dismantling his government.

12. Why were the various sites for the PRG ministries chosen to be deep within the "Iron Triangle" of sanctuaries and bases, near the Cambodian border?
(a) It was what President Phat deeemed best.
(b) As good proection from B-52 and helicopter asssaults.
(c) To be close to the Gulf of Thailand.
(d) To stifle communication with COSVN.

13. How did Tang respond when he is asked to join the new government in Vietnam?
(a) He declines, saying he is ill.
(b) He accepts but never shows up to duty.
(c) He accepts and hopes to change the government from within.
(d) He refuses, voicing his objections to the government's stances.

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

15. What set the PRG leaders apart from the rest of the organization?
(a) The absence of fear.
(b) Their extra food rations.
(c) The extra pairs of pajamas they received.
(d) Their access to information.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How could the significance of the Alliance and the PRG be substantially reenhanced?

3. What were most of the Southern guerrillas pressing hard for in Chapter 18?

4. Why did Tang undertake a long trip to Dresden, East Germany in Chapter 20?

5. What directives emerged from a COSVN/PRG meeting held in Chapter 22?

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