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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 some local Mytho guerillas do to Albert Thao?

2. What happened to Tang ten days before Albert Thao attempted a coup on Khan's regime?

3. What was the meaning of "Danh va dam, dam va dahn"'?

4. How did Ho Chi Minh ask Tang and his fellow students to refer to him?

5. What job did Tang take at the end of Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What impressed Tang so much when he discovered what Ho Chi Minh was through while he met with Tang and a fellow student for tea?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How did Tang first experience racial discrimination?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

What does the treatment of Tran Buu Kiem and Tran Bach Dang, who made minor blunders in front of Party officials, say about the the COSVN's treatment of leading intellectuals? What was the general tone and spirit of the workers' party at the time of Dang's and Diem's isolation and retirement?

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