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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. Why did Tang and his wife move back to Saigon in Chapter 24?
(a) They missed their family.
(b) The revoluionaries were in the city.
(c) To plan an escape.
(d) They were bored in the country.

2. Upon Tang's return to Hanoi in Chapter 20, what does he encounter in the city he has not visited for thirty years?
(a) A modern and beautified city.
(b) Ceaseless turmoil.
(c) A place of dignity.
(d) Dreariness and poverty.

3. How could the significance of the Alliance and the PRG be substantially reenhanced?
(a) If a decisive military outcome is reached.
(b) If the Alliance and the PRG overtake the COSVN.
(c) In the event of a political compromise.
(d) If the ARVN wins the war.

4. What did Tang consider to be the "fourth front" for the NLF's cause?
(a) The Paris peace talks.
(b) Public opinion in the United States.
(c) Thieu's government.
(d) The drug wars in Cambodia.

5. Who does Tang marry in the summer of 1976?
(a) A Communist Party bureaucrat.
(b) His ex-wife.
(c) A close family friend of Trinh Dinh Thao.
(d) A relative of Madame Thieu's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Tang's last official function in Algeria?

3. What directives emerged from a COSVN/PRG meeting held in Chapter 22?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the goal of Nixon's "Vietnamization," according to the NLF?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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