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

2. What announcement did Le Duan make at the joint meeting of the politburo and central military committee in 1975?
(a) Saigon had fallen.
(b) A province near Saigon, Phuoc Long, had fallen.
(c) The troops in Saigon were filled with depression.
(d) President Thieu had been deposed.

3. What new means of transportation was Vietnam inundated with in 1969 and 1970?
(a) Volkswagens.
(b) Itallian bicycles.
(c) Mopeds.
(d) Japanese motorbikes.

4. Who was the American Ambassador trying to arrange the appearance of a real election in Saigon in Chapter 17?
(a) Henry Kissinger.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Ellsworth Bunker.
(d) George McGovern.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Tang respond when he is asked to join the new government in Vietnam?

2. What effect did America's invasion into Cambodia have on the NLF?

3. Upon Tang's visit to Moscow from Algiers, what did his anticipated "vacation" turn out to be?

4. What was the prime enemy of the guerrillas considered to be in the jungle?

5. What did Tang hope to obtain upon his trip as part of the PRG's delegation at Algiers' independence celebration?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were Nixon and Kissinger unable to comprehend the issues in Vietnam that prevented an American success there?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. What caused Tran Back Dang to lose acceptance and blight his career with the COSVN?

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

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

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

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