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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. Which of the following was NOT an objective of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam?

2. What did Tang do when he was drafted by the Bao Dai government?

3. What religion was Ngo Dinh Diem connected with?

4. What job did Tang take at the Societe Sucriere?

5. What military position did Diem assign to Albert Thao?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Ho Chi Minh's welcoming visit to the members of the alliance in Hanoi so important to them?

2. Within three years of Diem's presidency, what was apparent about the leader concerning his political endeavors?

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

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

5. When was it decided by the newly appointed NLF Provisional Committee to establish a committee for the Saigon/Cholon/Giadinh zone?

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

7. Why was Tang needed back home in 1955 more than ever in Chapter 4?

8. Why was it that Diem did not have the loyalty of his subjects, the South Vietnamese people?

9. Why was Tang confused when he received a letter from his father in Chapter 3?

10. Why was it that President-Designate Tho was unable to be liberated from detention in Tuy Hoa?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Express an opinion as to whether Tang's and his fellow nationalists' struggles had been in vain. Support your opinion with facts and feelings expressed within the book.

Essay Topic 2

Many of those who joined the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces at its founding had been resistant for years to formally joining such organizations.

Why had these people (most of whom were old friends of Tang) resisted associating themselves politically, regardless of their sympathies for the goals of the NLF? What made them finally decide to take action by 1968?

Essay Topic 3

What prevented Nguyen Huu Tho from attending the first meeting of the NLF as its newly-elected president? What were the events leading up to the inability to ensure Tho's presence at that meeting?

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