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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. When Tang was arrested in Chapter 10, what was he accused of?

2. Who was Thuy Ba?

3. Who did the U.S. government signal its willingness to support upon abandoning its support of Diem in the early 1960s?

4. Who did Bao Dai name as Prime Minister?

5. How did Albert Thao capitalize on his role of investigating army officers for disloyalty to Diem?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What brought Tang's father and father-in-law to demand that Tang's wife return home to Vietnam?

6. What were Tang's feelings toward America when he returned to Saigon in 1955?

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

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

9. Why did Albert Thao end up staying with Tang for three days in Chapter 6?

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

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Explain why Tang found Diem's government policies intolerable. What was most distressing about Diem from Tang's point of view?

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