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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 nickname did Madame Phat receive after she spoke of her debt of gratitude to the Party?
(a) Humorless Madame Phat.
(b) Guardian of the Pagoda.
(c) Proletariat Phat.
(d) Keeper of Bourgeois Reality.

2. Why was an advisory Council of Elders formed during the Provisional Revolutionary Government's (PRG) congress?
(a) As an afterthought with little meaning.
(b) To reconcile tradition with revolution.
(c) As an antidote to propaganda.
(d) To appease the older members.

3. Why were the dates of June 6th through 8th chosen to organize the congress for the Provisional Revolutionary Government?
(a) To commemmorate the founding of the NLF.
(b) The dates are anniversaries of grandparents' deaths.
(c) To honor Ho Chi Minh's birthday.
(d) To upstage a Nixon-Thieu meeting being held on Midway Island.

4. What directives emerged from a COSVN/PRG meeting held in Chapter 22?
(a) Everyone from the old regime must undergo a rigorous curriculum.
(b) A new flag must be created.
(c) A new political song must be written.
(d) All previous Saigon regime leaders must be executed.

5. What did Hai Thuan, a Southern cadre of the Vietminh in its war against the French, do in Chapter 22?
(a) He leaves his wife and children to go to France.
(b) He is the minister of justice.
(c) He refuses to petition the politburo about his son.
(d) He commits suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were "elephant's intestines?"

2. What did Tang do at the International Association of Democratic Jurists in Algeria to insult the Soviets?

3. Where did the Northern escape routes directly lead to?

4. According to Tang in Chapter 16, how did America regard the country of Vietnam?

5. What break came to Tang and his wife via his wife's brother-in-law?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tang come out of retirement and return to Saigon?

2. What was the new attitude seen first from the North toward the alliance as exhibited in Chapter 16?

3. How did the NLF gain the support of the local population near Kratie, along the western banks of the Mekong?

4. What access to information did the leaders of the PRG have in the Maquis?

5. When Tang's boat during his escape was attacked by pirates, why wasn't the situation as horrible as some others had been?

6. How did Tang come to the difficult conclusion that he had to leave Vietnam after all he had been through?

7. Why did the imminent signing of a negotiation agreement in Paris fill Tang and the nationalist forces with hope and excitement?

8. What was the theme of the seminars given to the Alliance/NLF/PRG leaders in Kratie?

9. When Tang arrived in Hanoi in 1974, after a thirty-year absence, what conditions did he encounter?

10. Why was the organizing congress for the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) held on June 6, 7 and 8, 1969?

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