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

2. Where was Tang taken in Chapter 9 when two well-dressed men visited him at his office in the sugar company?
(a) To Hanoi.
(b) To the airport.
(c) A restaurant in Saigon.
(d) Police headquarters.

3. What were Agrovilles?
(a) A capitalistic branch of society.
(b) A method of increasing revenue for farmers.
(c) A government project of self-contained villages.
(d) Villages in which to house captured enemies.

4. Which of the following was NOT an objective of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam?
(a) Bring unity to the different classes of people in the South.
(b) Overthrow the Diem regime.
(c) Bring in American advisers to help with the movement's actions.
(d) Build an independent economy.

5. Why did the province of Ben Tre become peaceful as opposed to its violent reputation?
(a) Albert Thao became its province chief.
(b) Villages were set up there to control the people.
(c) The Vietcong could not infiltrate the area.
(d) Diem bombed the area.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What was Chi Hoa?

4. What was the official name of the Vietnamese Communist Party?

5. Why did the NLF Committee meet in 1961 during Tet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Tang first experience racial discrimination?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What were Tang's feelings toward America when he returned to Saigon in 1955?

8. 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?

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

10. 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?

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