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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. How did Tang respond when he is asked to join the new government in Vietnam?
(a) He accepts and hopes to change the government from within.
(b) He refuses, voicing his objections to the government's stances.
(c) He accepts but never shows up to duty.
(d) He declines, saying he is ill.

2. What did Nguyen Van Thieu do upon his foreign minister's signing of a peace accord?
(a) He went on the air over Radio Hanoi to announce the signing.
(b) He made it clear that he was ready for a coalition government.
(c) He showed good will intentions toward the PRG.
(d) He broadcast no intention of abiding by it.

3. Where did Tang's escape by boat from Vietnam end up taking him to freedom?
(a) Galang Island.
(b) Poulo Condore.
(c) Malaysia.
(d) An oil rig station.

4. Why did Tang and his wife move back to Saigon in Chapter 24?
(a) The revoluionaries were in the city.
(b) They were bored in the country.
(c) To plan an escape.
(d) They missed their family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the various sites for the PRG ministries chosen to be deep within the "Iron Triangle" of sanctuaries and bases, near the Cambodian border?

2. Who was the only professional sailor on board the boat Tang and his wife escaped on?

3. How could the importance of Tang's and his colleague's roles be measured in Chapter 16?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What access to information did the leaders of the PRG have in the Maquis?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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