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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 leadership cadre.
(b) The cook.
(c) The supply cadre.
(d) The finance cadre.

2. What did Thieu force university and high school students to do in 1970?
(a) Attend military and training exercises.
(b) Stay in school at all costs.
(c) Refuse visits with family and friends.
(d) Take jobs within the military.

3. 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) Transportation was non-existant.
(c) The route had become a system of two-lane roads.
(d) The original paths had grown dense with jungle foilage.

4. In the elections of 1976, what did the police do to anyone who did not vote?
(a) Confiscated their ration card.
(b) Threatened their life.
(c) Deported them.
(d) Brought them to the voting centers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname did Madame Phat receive after she spoke of her debt of gratitude to the Party?

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

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

4. 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?

5. In Chapter 21, what did Tang discover when he arrived in Saigon and telephoned his parents at his older brother's home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did Presidential Minister Tran Buu Kiem whisper to Tang during one the last general meetings involving the leadership of the NLF, PRG, the alliance, and the mass organizations?

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

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

9. How did the members of the PRG survive and live in their rough circumstances?

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

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