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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tang's pregnant wife do when both fathers demanded the couple return home?

2. What form of torture did Tang endure in Chapter 10, causing great pain to his eyes?

3. What was the meaning of "Danh va dam, dam va dahn"'?

4. What did Ho Chi Minh give Tang at the end of their afternoon tea together at Montmorency?

5. What did Nguyen Van Thieu expect of Nixon and Kissinger as indicated in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Tang first experience racial discrimination?

2. What kind of secrecy was involved in the first meeting of the NLF?

3. Why did Air Marshal Ky and his partner, Nguyen Van Thieu, make an attempt to disrupt Americans meeting with Dang's deputy, a cadre named Sau Ha?

4. Why was it that the National Liberation Front was not anxious to see President Diem overthrown?

5. What was it about Ba Tra, one of Tang's support personnel in the Young People's Association, that disturbed Tang?

6. What was Tang's reaction upon meeting Ho Chi Minh?

7. Why did Tang's father decide each of his sons' careers for them?

8. How did Tang come to be made chief of his neighborhood contingent of the Vanguard Youth?

9. How did the NLF become dominated by the Communist Party and the Northern government?

10. Why did Tang decide to join the national navy upon receiving another draft notice in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who was the main influence upon Tang's political awakening? How did this person come to influence Tang to such a degree in a short period of time?

Essay Topic 2

Pham Hung and General Trung of Central Office South Vietnam (COSVN), Communist Party headquarters in South Vietnam, joked that "even though we ran like hell, still we'll win" after Northern forces retreated from southern Cambodian borders to Kratie. Explain the meaning of this quote as it relates to Vietnamese guerrilla fighters. How can the reader interpret Henry Kissinger's similar statement given in a journal article in 1968?

Essay Topic 3

What was the purpose for the NLF's forming of The Movement for Self-Determination? What did the movement hope to accomplish? Why did the movement choose the members it did?

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