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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 Tang ask PRG President Phat concerning the directives established at the COSVN/PRG meeting in Chapter 22?
(a) He asks if he needs to be sent to a reeducation camp.
(b) He asks to help reinvent the directives.
(c) He asks why the people are taking so long to be reeducated.
(d) He wants to know if he has time for a series of word games.

2. According to Tang in Chapter 16, how did America regard the country of Vietnam?
(a) As a pawn of strategy.
(b) As an independent nation.
(c) With a view toward economic progress.
(d) As a country of people to be saved.

3. What did Tang hope to obtain upon his trip as part of the PRG's delegation at Algiers' independence celebration?
(a) Juridicial reforms in Algeria.
(b) Support for the Khmer resistance.
(c) Material aid for a propaganda campaign.
(d) Help with Mme. Binh's world tour.

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

5. In what way did the Saigon forces utilize the PRG's relative passivity to their advantage in Chapter 18?
(a) The Saigon forces had no way to gain advantages due to the PRG's passiveness.
(b) They fought to gain land and population in PRG areas of control.
(c) The PRG's passivity was ignored completely.
(d) They publicly agreed with the PRG's stance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the term "neutralize" mean within the context of the Phoenix Program?

3. What was the reason behind the National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord as described in Article 9 of the Paris Accords?

4. The taking of Saigon by Northern forces hinged upon the fall of which centrally located city?

5. What was the American Senate's Hatfield amendment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused Tran Back Dang to lose acceptance and blight his career with the COSVN?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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