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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. Why were Tang and a fellow pharmacy student, Miss Ly, chosen to have tea with Ho Chi Minh?
(a) He chose them at random.
(b) He saw them as future leaders.
(c) They were from the south.
(d) They were the brightest students.

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

3. What was the meaning of "Danh va dam, dam va dahn"'?
(a) Invasion and power, power and invasion.
(b) Fighting and talking, talking and fighting.
(c) Warfare and peace, peace and warfare.
(d) Freedom and slavery, slavery and freedom.

4. Where did the leadership of the North place its focus in the 1966 resolution?
(a) On getting better weaponry.
(b) On Tang, himself.
(c) Upon young people.
(d) On mobilizing the masses.

5. Why was the Northern Vietnamese government fearful of American involvement in the fighting in Vietnam in the early 1960s?
(a) Chances for a peaceful, negotiated settlement would vanish.
(b) A nuclear bomb attack was anticipated.
(c) The Chinese would then become involved.
(d) They had no firearms for a counterattack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tang do in regards to his pharmaceutical studies in Chapter 3?

2. What form of torture did Tang endure in Chapter 10, causing great pain to his eyes?

3. In Chapter 3, what did Tang become more and more involved with in Paris?

4. Who did Tang's father allow his sons to interact with outside of the home?

5. What prevented Tang from attending the First National Congress in 1962?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Tang and his associates want to keep the American military from becoming involved in the Vietnamese conflict?

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

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

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

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

6. How did the platform of the alliance differ from that of the NLF?

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

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

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

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

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