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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which unit member was very popular for what he could provide the guerrillas with?
(a) The leadership cadre.
(b) The supply cadre.
(c) The finance cadre.
(d) The cook.

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

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

4. What did the Party ideologues decide the NLF troops should do for three months in Kratie?
(a) Study the peace talks ongoing in Paris.
(b) Make plans for future attacks on the ARVN.
(c) Exhibit Buddhist and Confucian spirituality.
(d) Study the fine points of Marxism-Leninism.

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

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

7. What was the prime enemy of the guerrillas considered to be in the jungle?
(a) Malaria.
(b) The Americans.
(c) Nguy.
(d) The Saigon troops.

8. What did Hai Thuan, a Southern cadre of the Vietminh in its war against the French, do in Chapter 22?
(a) He refuses to petition the politburo about his son.
(b) He leaves his wife and children to go to France.
(c) He commits suicide.
(d) He is the minister of justice.

9. Upon Tang's visit to Moscow from Algiers, what did his anticipated "vacation" turn out to be?
(a) A period of rest and recuperation.
(b) A whirlwind vistit to Soviet tourist attractions.
(c) An observation of Russian life.
(d) A meeting every day with Soviet leaders.

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

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

12. What was Ba Cap's personality like?
(a) Well-liked and personable.
(b) Good-tempered and funny.
(c) Abrasive and vociferous.
(d) Quiet and studious.

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

15. 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) Many people were murdered due to inadequate discipline.
(c) The city was taken peacefully.
(d) Citizens ran away and the city was nearly empty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nearly derailed Tang and dozens of others with him of leaving the country by boat?

2. What position in the Provisional Revolutionary Government did Tang receive?

3. What was the American Senate's Hatfield amendment?

4. Who was the American Ambassador trying to arrange the appearance of a real election in Saigon in Chapter 17?

5. What were all of the attendants aware of at the PRG meeting in January of 1972?

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