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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. Where was Tang taken in Chapter 9 when two well-dressed men visited him at his office in the sugar company?

2. Who did Bao Dai name as Prime Minister?

3. Why did the province of Ben Tre become peaceful as opposed to its violent reputation?

4. Who did Tang's wife end up bribing in order to get Tang transferred to the national police headquarters?

5. Why was Tang's wife allowed to visit Tang when he was imprisoned by the secret police and tortured?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What physical and mental condition was Tang in while a prisoner at the headquarters prison?

4. Why did the South Vietnamese secret police want to get prisoners to admit to being members of the Communist Party?

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

6. How did Tang first experience racial discrimination?

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

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

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

10. What was the main goal of the movement for self-determination?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Tang was abducted by the secret police, he was put into a prison to be tortured. Why was Tang reluctant to admit to the police that he was a communist if it would avoid further torture? What brought Tang to finally admit on paper that he was a communist, when he truly was not? How might this false admission effect Tang's political life in the future?

Essay Topic 2

Why would an open opposition by Vietnam to either China or to the Soviets be hurtful to the emerging nation as far as Tang and the nationalists were concerned? In what ways were the Soviets and the Chinese helpful to Tang's cause?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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