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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 were "elephant's intestines?"
(a) Moneys cooked in a pot.
(b) Poisonous snakes.
(c) Long tubes of rolled cotton.
(d) The belts on the guerrillas' pajamas.

2. What nickname did Madame Phat receive after she spoke of her debt of gratitude to the Party?
(a) Humorless Madame Phat.
(b) Keeper of Bourgeois Reality.
(c) Proletariat Phat.
(d) Guardian of the Pagoda.

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

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

5. What happened when the city of Hue was taken by the NLF and Northern troops in January, 1968?
(a) Citizens ran away and the city was nearly empty.
(b) Many people were murdered due to inadequate discipline.
(c) The city was taken peacefully.
(d) The NLF gave the directive to carry out massacres there.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the elections of 1976, what did the police do to anyone who did not vote?

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

3. What directives emerged from a COSVN/PRG meeting held in Chapter 22?

4. What was the PRG opposed to?

5. What did Article 9 of the Paris Accords call for the creation of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What became of Tang's two brothers, both of whom had stayed in Saigon throughout the war?

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

10. In what ways did Thieu antagonize students and workers in 1970s Saigon?

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