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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. Why were the dates of June 6th through 8th chosen to organize the congress for the Provisional Revolutionary Government?
(a) To honor Ho Chi Minh's birthday.
(b) To commemmorate the founding of the NLF.
(c) To upstage a Nixon-Thieu meeting being held on Midway Island.
(d) The dates are anniversaries of grandparents' deaths.

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

3. What was the American Senate's Hatfield amendment?
(a) It prohibited funds for American operations in Cambodia and Laos.
(b) It gave funds for American operations in Cambodia and Laos.
(c) An increase in air raids in order to finish the war.
(d) It required the withdrawal of troops in return for the release of POWs.

4. What does elephant taste like according to Tang?
(a) Tasteless and tough as old shoes.
(b) Like chicken.
(c) Like a rare delicacy.
(d) A tasty morsel if eaten quickly.

5. What was life like for the PRG in general?
(a) Often give up for a bribe, all members lived in fear of one another.
(b) Life was generally good and comfortable.
(c) They lived like hunted animals.
(d) The elevated status of the PRG enabled them to live like kings.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Tang's host want most to know from Tang during his visit to Budapest ?

5. What were all of the attendants aware of at the PRG meeting in January of 1972?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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