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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 PRG opposed to?
(a) Troop withdrawals by Nixon.
(b) Being linked to Hanoi.
(c) Including people from Central Vietnam in their group.
(d) Revolutionary justice as performed in Hue.

2. What was Sihanouk's title in Cambodia in early 1970?
(a) Prince.
(b) Administrator.
(c) Chief.
(d) Commander.

3. Who was the only professional sailor on board the boat Tang and his wife escaped on?
(a) Ton's cousin.
(b) There was none.
(c) Ton.
(d) Kiet.

4. What did Nguyen Van Thieu do upon his foreign minister's signing of a peace accord?
(a) He made it clear that he was ready for a coalition government.
(b) He broadcast no intention of abiding by it.
(c) He went on the air over Radio Hanoi to announce the signing.
(d) He showed good will intentions toward the PRG.

5. What was the reason behind the National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord as described in Article 9 of the Paris Accords?
(a) To engage Vietnam's military operatives.
(b) To have Thieu retreat from dismantling his government.
(c) To isolate Thieu.
(d) To resolve Vietnam's domestic problems through political means.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people have been freed from arrest since Tang's retirement in the summer of 1976, to his knowledge?

2. Why was the main goal of the Northern forces in 1972 to get the U.S. out of Vietnam?

3. What American events attracted the attention of the nationalists in 1973?

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

5. Why were the dates of June 6th through 8th chosen to organize the congress for the Provisional Revolutionary Government?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the COSVN/PRG decide to deal with their recent enemies of the South at the end of the war?

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

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

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

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

6. Five years after the Communist Party's seminars given to the Alliance/NLF/PRG forces in Kratie, what did Tang come to realize about the cadre's assaults and the party leaders' consequent respect for the nationalist's views?

7. What did Nguyen Van Thieu make clear immediately upon Tran Van Lam's signing of the Paris accords?

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

9. What did General Trung mean when he joked that "even though we ran like hell, still we'll win" in regard to the NLF's retreat from the southern Cambodian border?

10. What did the NLF fighters do when they were not fighting or sick?

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