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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 NLF's response to Nixon's "Vietnamization"?
(a) Retreat and lay low for a number of years.
(b) Move the entire NLF organization to Hanoi.
(c) Step up the use of arms.
(d) Set up a formal NLF governmental structure in Saigon.

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

3. What did Thieu force university and high school students to do in 1970?
(a) Stay in school at all costs.
(b) Take jobs within the military.
(c) Refuse visits with family and friends.
(d) Attend military and training exercises.

4. What was the motto for Dung's opportune moment of a campaign on the assault of Saigon in April, 1974?
(a) "Marvelous Speed, Boldness, Surprise, and Certain Victory."
(b) "Human Liberation for the People."
(c) "Public Enthusiasm and Western Humiliation At All Costs."
(d) "Fighting and Talking."

5. Why were both Nixon and Kissinger unable to formulate policies that would frustrate the strategies of the North?
(a) They did not possess enough weaponry to overcome the North.
(b) The American press was against them.
(c) They could not think about the war in the same way as their enemy could.
(d) The policies involved only air raids.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tang ask PRG President Phat concerning the directives established at the COSVN/PRG meeting in Chapter 22?

2. The taking of Saigon by Northern forces hinged upon the fall of which centrally located city?

3. What did Tang and his colleagues find to be the necessary connection between Marxism and independence?

4. What did Nguyen Van Thieu do upon his foreign minister's signing of a peace accord?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Tang visited Budapest in Chapter 20, what might be said to have been the motives of the Budapest government while they treated Tang to a visitor's tour and comforts?

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

4. What did Article 9 out of the Paris Accord call for the creation of?

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. What became of Tang's two brothers, both of whom had stayed in Saigon throughout the war?

7. At the celebration for the victory of the North in Saigon, Tang asked Van Tien Dung where his Vietcong divisions one, three, five, seven, and nine are. What was his answer?

8. How had the Ho Chi Minh Trail changed from when it was first created in 1959 until Tang returned to travel it in 1974?

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

10. How did the members of the PRG survive and live in their rough circumstances?

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