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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 was the turning point for those who finally decided to take political action and join the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces?
(a) The American's involvement in Vietnam.
(b) The violence of Tet.
(c) The threat of nuclear warfare.
(d) The coup in Saigon.

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

3. What did the flag devised for the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam later become famous as?
(a) The flag of the Vietcong.
(b) The flag that anti-Vietnam War demonstrators in America displayed.
(c) A sign of peace for the South.
(d) A flag used on Diem's coffin.

4. Who was Ngo Dinh Nhu?
(a) Prime Minister of Vietnam.
(b) Organizer of the National Liberation Front.
(c) Leader of the National Revolutionary Movement.
(d) A teacher at Saigon University.

5. What did Albert Thao and Tang finally speak to each other about in Chapter 6?
(a) Tran Van Don's French ties.
(b) The Diem regime's power.
(c) The American government.
(d) Their involvement with the NLF.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Tang and his compatriots refuse the radio being offered to them by the Americans readying them for a prisoner exchange?

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

3. Where did the leadership of the North place its focus in the 1966 resolution?

4. What did Tang's grandfather teach his clan each Sunday?

5. What role did the leading figure of the Committee to Defend the Peace, Dr. Pham Van Huyen, play in Diem's government in 1954?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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