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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. How were Phat's commandos able to lure Tho's prison guards away in Chapter 7?

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

3. What did Tang's grandfather teach his clan each Sunday?

4. Who was Tao Thao?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Tang and his associates want to keep the American military from becoming involved in the Vietnamese conflict?

2. 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?

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

4. What was Tang's main goal during his early leadership of the Young People's Association?

5. What were defined as the broad objectives of the mobilization committee for the peace movement?

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

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

8. What compromise was reached for Vietnam in May of 1954?

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

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

What instigated Tang's decision to stay in France after completing his academic studies and resigning from the navy? Describe his thought processes on the matter. What interfered with that decision?

Essay Topic 2

When Tang decided to forgo his pharmacy studies and focus instead on political science, his political views began to sway. In which direction did Tang's new studies take him politically? What did Tang come to understand about the relationship between Vietnam and France?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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