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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. Which unit member was very popular for what he could provide the guerrillas with?
(a) The finance cadre.
(b) The leadership cadre.
(c) The supply cadre.
(d) The cook.

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

3. What was Tang's last official function in Algeria?
(a) Celebrating a victory with Prince Sihanouk.
(b) Congratulating the Khmer representative on the victory in Phnom Penh.
(c) Going to the funeral of Queen Kosamak.
(d) Having tea with Madame Binh.

4. How could the importance of Tang's and his colleague's roles be measured in Chapter 16?
(a) How they were treated by the party.
(b) How many pairs of pajamas they received.
(c) By the salary raises they received.
(d) Who was promoted within the ranks.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What set the PRG leaders apart from the rest of the organization?

4. What did Thieu force university and high school students to do in 1970?

5. Why was an advisory Council of Elders formed during the Provisional Revolutionary Government's (PRG) congress?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. Why did the imminent signing of a negotiation agreement in Paris fill Tang and the nationalist forces with hope and excitement?

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