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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Nguyen Van Thieu expect of Nixon and Kissinger as indicated in Chapter 12?
(a) They would accept Communist victory.
(b) They would not abandon him.
(c) They would become bitter enemies.
(d) They would step up the war to involve more countries.

2. What was the official name of the Vietnamese Communist Party?
(a) National Liberation Front.
(b) Tran Buu.
(c) Lao Dong.
(d) To Cong.

3. What did Tang's wife do to help lessen his prison sentence in Chapter 9?
(a) She informed the foreign press of Tang's prediciment.
(b) She bribed the tribunal president.
(c) She wrote a letter to the president.
(d) She divorced him in hopes he would fight to be released.

4. What did some local Mytho guerillas do to Albert Thao?
(a) Recruited him as a spy.
(b) Threatened his family with death.
(c) Shot him on the spot.
(d) Threw him into the river to drown.

5. Why did the province of Ben Tre become peaceful as opposed to its violent reputation?
(a) The Vietcong could not infiltrate the area.
(b) Diem bombed the area.
(c) Albert Thao became its province chief.
(d) Villages were set up there to control the people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurred on November 11, 1960?

2. What happened to Tang ten days before Albert Thao attempted a coup on Khan's regime?

3. What movement did Tang decide to join after his meeting with Ho Chi Minh?

4. Why were the Montagnards' village populations forced by Diem's troops out of the mountains and into the valleys, separating them from their ancestral lands and graves?

5. What event pushed aside Tang's trepidations concerning military action against Diem?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was it that President-Designate Tho was unable to be liberated from detention in Tuy Hoa?

2. How did Tang come to be made chief of his neighborhood contingent of the Vanguard Youth?

3. What were defined as the broad objectives of the mobilization committee for the peace movement?

4. Who helped Tang's father raise Tang and his five brothers?

5. How did Tang first experience racial discrimination?

6. Why was Ho Chi Minh's welcoming visit to the members of the alliance in Hanoi so important to them?

7. What compromise was reached for Vietnam in May of 1954?

8. Why did Tang's father decide each of his sons' careers for them?

9. Why did Tang decide to join the national navy upon receiving another draft notice in Chapter 4?

10. When was it decided by the newly appointed NLF Provisional Committee to establish a committee for the Saigon/Cholon/Giadinh zone?

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