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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. Where was Nguyen Huu Tho when Phat's men attempted to liberate him from prison?
(a) He had been executed already.
(b) Having a private visit with his family in a government compound.
(c) Standing near the front entrance.
(d) Inside the prison house, waiting for them.

2. 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?
(a) Everyone was destined for execution.
(b) The northern army was close to winning the war.
(c) The Americans were trading prisoners of Chinese ethnicity.
(d) Madame Dang's disappearance and two prisoner executions.

3. 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 plan a mass emigration to America.
(d) To rid themselves of Hieu.

4. The moment Tang or any of his brothers displayed a weakness in any school subject, what did Tang's father do?
(a) Employ a tutor.
(b) Teach them himself.
(c) Punish them.
(d) Restrict their activities.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tang's pregnant wife do when both fathers demanded the couple return home?

2. Who was Tao Thao?

3. What did Tang's wife do to help lessen his prison sentence in Chapter 9?

4. What did the underground resistance Tang was involved with eventually evolve into?

5. What was Diem preoccupied with throughout his regime?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Tang first experience racial discrimination?

3. 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?

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

5. What compromise was reached for Vietnam in May of 1954?

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

7. What was Tang's reaction upon meeting Ho Chi Minh?

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

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

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

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