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

2. The taking of Saigon by Northern forces hinged upon the fall of which centrally located city?
(a) Ban Me Thuot.
(b) Phuoc Long.
(c) Hanoi.
(d) Da Nang.

3. What did Tang do for his brother, Bich, in Chapter 22?
(a) He tried to get him released from detention but failed.
(b) He had him released from detention.
(c) He got him a position in the politburo.
(d) He wrote letters to him, giving him advice.

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

5. What was the main goal of the Provisional Revolutionary Government, organized in 1969?
(a) To represent the Northern Vietnamese.
(b) To influence public opinion on different fronts.
(c) To look better in the eyes of the Communist Party.
(d) To win the war by force and oust American forces.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Tang undertake a long trip to Dresden, East Germany in Chapter 20?

2. According to Tang in Chapter 16, how did America regard the country of Vietnam?

3. Upon Tang's visit to Moscow from Algiers, what did his anticipated "vacation" turn out to be?

4. What did Tang and his colleagues find to be the necessary connection between Marxism and independence?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. Why was the organizing congress for the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) held on June 6, 7 and 8, 1969?

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

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

9. What did General Trung mean when he joked that "even though we ran like hell, still we'll win" in regard to the NLF's retreat from the southern Cambodian border?

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

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