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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 did Article 9 of the Paris Accords call for the creation of?
(a) A greater role of the Saigon government in negotiations.
(b) A Korean-style equilibrium vision.
(c) A humanitarian ideal of a Socialist nature.
(d) A National Council of Reconciliation.

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

3. What nearly derailed Tang and dozens of others with him of leaving the country by boat?
(a) The boat hit a sand bar and got stuck.
(b) A government soldier on a fishing boat grew suspicious.
(c) A monsoon hit them.
(d) The pirates on the ocean spotted them.

4. How did Nixon and Kissinger justify the Tet offensive bombings and invasion of Cambodia?
(a) It gained an essential year of time.
(b) A propaganda war of words was won.
(c) It brought an end to the American anti-war protests.
(d) It increased American unity.

5. 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?
(a) Kept their distance from the PRG.
(b) Refused to meet with any Vietnamese parties.
(c) Offered Tang a huge loan for the country.
(d) Held a dinner in honor of the PRG.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the dates of June 6th through 8th chosen to organize the congress for the Provisional Revolutionary Government?

2. Why did the PRG believe that having Tang's brothers working for the South Vietnamese government might help their cause?

3. When Tang revisited Hanoi in 1974, what did he note about the Ho Chi Minh Trail?

4. What did Tang do at the International Association of Democratic Jurists in Algeria to insult the Soviets?

5. Why was the main goal of the Northern forces in 1972 to get the U.S. out of Vietnam?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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