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

2. What break came to Tang and his wife via his wife's brother-in-law?
(a) They were able to sell their cottage at a profit.
(b) The prospect of escape by boat.
(c) An opportunity to showcase Tang's war efforts.
(d) A job prospect without being in the government.

3. What did Tang do at the International Association of Democratic Jurists in Algeria to insult the Soviets?
(a) Made a rude comment to a Soviet delegate and tried to retract it.
(b) Refused to shake hands with the Soviet delegate to the conference.
(c) Denounced the Soviets stance in a speech.
(d) Walked away from a statement made by the Soviet delegate.

4. On the day of celebration at Independence Palace Square to celebrate the Vietnamese victory at last, which military units were the last to appear in the parade?
(a) The Democratic Republic of North Vietnam.
(b) The North Vietnamese Army.
(c) The Vietcong units.
(d) The Soviet Army.

5. What American events attracted the attention of the nationalists in 1973?
(a) A book written by Henry Kissinger.
(b) The re-election of Nixon.
(c) The Watergate scandal.
(d) Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Nixon's "Vietnamization" as the NLF saw it?

2. Why did Tang undertake a long trip to Dresden, East Germany in Chapter 20?

3. Where did Tang's escape by boat from Vietnam end up taking him to freedom?

4. What does elephant taste like according to Tang?

5. What did Tang do for his brother, Bich, in Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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