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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 Tang's father threaten to do in Chapter 3?
(a) Restrict his passport.
(b) Commit suicide out of shame.
(c) Stop sending him new clothing.
(d) Cut off Tang's funds.

2. What did Tang's father ask him in a letter towards the end of 1951?
(a) To return home and help him financially.
(b) To join the army and fight for Saigon.
(c) For forgiveness.
(d) To return to his ex-wife and child.

3. What is COSVN which is described in Chapter 11?
(a) The North Vietnamese politburo.
(b) The National Liberation Front system.
(c) A leadership group made up of delegates from the Worker's Party.
(d) The Northern Vietnamese army forces.

4. Where did President Thao lead the alliance delegation in the spring of 1969?
(a) A meeting with President Johnson.
(b) A skirmish with the secret police in Saigon.
(c) To the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(d) A visit to Hanoi.

5. What did Tang's grandfather teach his clan each Sunday?
(a) The elements of political regimes.
(b) The precepts of Confucian ethics.
(c) How to achieve artistic development.
(d) A proper Vietnamese diet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the flag devised for the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam later become famous as?

2. What did Tang's pregnant wife do when both fathers demanded the couple return home?

3. How did Tang find his time in jail to be?

4. How did Albert Thao capitalize on his role of investigating army officers for disloyalty to Diem?

5. Who did the U.S. government signal its willingness to support upon abandoning its support of Diem in the early 1960s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Air Marshal Ky and his partner, Nguyen Van Thieu, make an attempt to disrupt Americans meeting with Dang's deputy, a cadre named Sau Ha?

2. What kind of secrecy was involved in the first meeting of the NLF?

3. What was Tang's reaction upon meeting Ho Chi Minh?

4. Within three years of Diem's presidency, what was apparent about the leader concerning his political endeavors?

5. Why did Albert Thao end up staying with Tang for three days in Chapter 6?

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

7. How did the NLF become dominated by the Communist Party and the Northern government?

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

9. Why was it that Diem did not have the loyalty of his subjects, the South Vietnamese people?

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

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