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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 occurred on November 11, 1960?

2. What term does Truong Nhu Tang use to describe his childhood?

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

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

5. Why did the guards forget to feed Tang and the other prisoners in the police headquarters for a couple of days in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the platform of the alliance differ from that of the NLF?

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

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

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

5. What did Tang's father tell him in an unexpected letter in 1951?

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

7. Who helped Tang's father raise Tang and his five brothers?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Albert Thao was a childhood friend of Tang's who became a spy within Diem's government. What induced Albert to become a spy, a dangerous mission for a young man? How did Tang view his friend's involvement in Diem's government, without being told that his friend was a double agent?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

The Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) was formed in response to Nixon's Vietnamization strategies. Explain the domestic, international and diplomatic goals of the PRG.

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