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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. When Tang revisited Hanoi in 1974, what did he note about the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
(a) The dirt paths were unchanged from years past.
(b) The original paths had grown dense with jungle foilage.
(c) Transportation was non-existant.
(d) The route had become a system of two-lane roads.

2. What did Tang and his colleagues find to be the necessary connection between Marxism and independence?
(a) The interdependence of class struggle.
(b) There was no necessary connection.
(c) The war against imperialism.
(d) The role of the intelligentsia in the national revolution.

3. What position in the Provisional Revolutionary Government did Tang receive?
(a) Cabinet Secretary.
(b) Minister of Justice.
(c) Foreign Minister.
(d) Minister of the Interior.

4. What did Tang ultimately decide to do about the Communist takeover of his land?
(a) Join the government.
(b) Leave the country.
(c) Continue to live in seclusion.
(d) Join an underground revolution.

5. Why did the PRG believe that having Tang's brothers working for the South Vietnamese government might help their cause?
(a) Family ties in the government gave the public reassurance about Tang.
(b) Tang could be viewed as a double agent.
(c) A brother's family could be held hostage in the future.
(d) One of the brothers could become a spy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tang bring to the attention of DRV Prime Minister Dong in Chapter 22?

2. In what way did the Saigon forces utilize the PRG's relative passivity to their advantage in Chapter 18?

3. What did the vice president of the Chinese State Council do concerning the PRG in order to express their feelings about Hanoi's ongoing affiliation with the Soviets?

4. Who was responsible for Tang's daughter, Loan, being able to do to college in America?

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. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. When Tang's boat during his escape was attacked by pirates, why wasn't the situation as horrible as some others had been?

9. What did Nguyen Van Thieu make clear immediately upon Tran Van Lam's signing of the Paris accords?

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

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