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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 military position did Diem assign to Albert Thao?
(a) Major.
(b) Sergeant.
(c) General.
(d) Private.

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

3. Why did Tang's father send Tang's fiance and her father to Paris?
(a) To give him grandchildren quickly.
(b) To threaten him with violence.
(c) So Tang and she can marry.
(d) To persuade Tang to return home immediately.

4. What was Diem's To Cong campaign?
(a) Diem's long run for political office.
(b) Nhu's revolutionary movement.
(c) A well-organized center of Diem's opposition.
(d) Jailing and execution of communist sympathizers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did some local Mytho guerillas do to Albert Thao?

2. Who was Tao Thao?

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

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

5. What became the chief news item on the prison grapevine after an ethnic Chinese labor leader was shot by prison guards and survived her wounds?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was Tang needed back home in 1955 more than ever in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

6. Why was it that the National Liberation Front was not anxious to see President Diem overthrown?

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

8. 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?

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

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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