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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. Who did Tang's small group meet by chance when they were dropped off near a jungle path on a prisoner exchange mission in Chapter 11?
(a) Albert Tho.
(b) Lien's husband.
(c) Tang's wife.
(d) Le Duc Tho's brother.

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

3. Why did the guards forget to feed Tang and the other prisoners in the police headquarters for a couple of days in Chapter 11?
(a) The food had run out.
(b) They were celebrating the Tet Mau Than, the lunar new year.
(c) The men were rioting.
(d) There was an army attack on the headquarters.

4. Who was Thuy Ba?
(a) A Communist Party leader.
(b) The doctor who oversaw Tang's care after he was exchanged as a prisoner.
(c) Ho Chi Minh's wife.
(d) The woman who would become Tang's third wife.

5. What school subject did Tang enjoy more so than chemistry?
(a) French.
(b) Music.
(c) History.
(d) Mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tang do upon receiving his second draft notice?

2. What did Tang's wife do to help lessen his prison sentence in Chapter 9?

3. What did Tang do when he was drafted by the Bao Dai government?

4. Who did Ho Chi Minh remind Tang of?

5. What was Diem's To Cong campaign?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Tang's main goal during his early leadership of the Young People's Association?

2. Why did the South Vietnamese secret police want to get prisoners to admit to being members of the Communist Party?

3. 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?

4. How did Tang's friend, Albert Thao, come to be closely involved with Ngo Dinh Diem?

5. Why was Tang confused when he received a letter from his father in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

9. What was the main goal of the movement for self-determination?

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

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