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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 did the underground resistance Tang was involved with eventually evolve into?

2. Where was Nguyen Huu Tho when Phat's men attempted to liberate him from prison?

3. What did the flag devised for the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam later become famous as?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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 first experience racial discrimination?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who was the main influence upon Tang's political awakening? How did this person come to influence Tang to such a degree in a short period of time?

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