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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. How did Tang meet his second wife?
(a) They had both joined the resistance.
(b) A colleague introduced them.
(c) They met in the Cai Lay region.
(d) His father set them up together.

2. Why did Tang's early mobilization committee in Chapter 7 send Nguyen Van Hieu to Hanoi?
(a) To gain support from their Northern compatriots.
(b) To discuss assassination plans for Diem.
(c) To rid themselves of Hieu.
(d) To plan a mass emigration to America.

3. When Tang was arrested in Chapter 10, what was he accused of?
(a) Conspiring to assassinate the president.
(b) Being too wealthly.
(c) Being a Communist Party member.
(d) Being head of the NLF.

4. Who did the U.S. government signal its willingness to support upon abandoning its support of Diem in the early 1960s?
(a) Ho Chi Minh.
(b) The army rebellion led by Van Don.
(c) The NLF.
(d) General Khanh's rebellion.

5. When Tang was in solitary confinement in the national police headquarters, what saved him from lapsing into permanent catatonia?
(a) The twice-daily meals.
(b) The prison grapevine.
(c) The end of torture.
(d) The books he was given to read.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Diem and Nhu during the coup in Chapter 6?

2. What did Albert Thao believe about Diem's leadership in Vietnam?

3. What punishment did the tribunal bestow upon Tang, besides prison, that may have interfered deeply with Tang's credibility within Vietnamese society?

4. What career did Tang's father decide Tang should pursue?

5. What did Nguyen Van Thieu do when he discovered a prisoner exchange being negotiated between the Americans and the North?

Short Essay Questions

1. What brought Tang's father and father-in-law to demand that Tang's wife return home to Vietnam?

2. What physical and mental condition was Tang in while a prisoner at the headquarters prison?

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

4. What impressed Tang so much when he discovered what Ho Chi Minh was through while he met with Tang and a fellow student for tea?

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

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

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

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

9. What did Tang's father tell him in an unexpected letter in 1951?

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

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