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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 did the Western delegates at the International Association of Democratic Jurists in Algeria do to surprise Tang in Chapter 20?
(a) They showed a lack of manners when refusing to acknowledge the PRG.
(b) They feted the Party and ignored the PRG.
(c) They showed fervid public enthusiasm at America's humiliation.
(d) They cheered on America's military greatness in his presence.

2. When Tang revisited Hanoi in 1974, what did he note about the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
(a) Transportation was non-existant.
(b) The original paths had grown dense with jungle foilage.
(c) The route had become a system of two-lane roads.
(d) The dirt paths were unchanged from years past.

3. What did the term "neutralize" mean within the context of the Phoenix Program?
(a) To let sleep.
(b) To save at all costs.
(c) To kill.
(d) To leave alone.

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

5. Which unit member was very popular for what he could provide the guerrillas with?
(a) The cook.
(b) The supply cadre.
(c) The finance cadre.
(d) The leadership cadre.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon Tang's return to Hanoi in Chapter 20, what does he encounter in the city he has not visited for thirty years?

2. What directives emerged from a COSVN/PRG meeting held in Chapter 22?

3. What was Tang's last official function in Algeria?

4. What was the PRG opposed to?

5. Where were Tang's brothers, Quynh and Bich, sent on June 16, 1975?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what ways did Thieu antagonize students and workers in 1970s Saigon?

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

4. What was the goal of Nixon's "Vietnamization," according to the NLF?

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

6. Why had escaping Vietnam by boat become a great topic of conversation in the first days following northern liberation?

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

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

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. Why was Prince Sihanouk's removal as head of the Cambodian government a source of anxiety for the NLF?

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