View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tang and his colleagues find to be the necessary connection between Marxism and independence?

2. Why did the PRG believe that having Tang's brothers working for the South Vietnamese government might help their cause?

3. How did Tran Back Dang get himself in trouble with the COSVN in Chapter 19?

4. In what way did the Saigon forces utilize the PRG's relative passivity to their advantage in Chapter 18?

5. Where did Tang's escape by boat from Vietnam end up taking him to freedom?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Tang's boat during his escape was attacked by pirates, why wasn't the situation as horrible as some others had been?

2. At the celebration for the victory of the North in Saigon, Tang asked Van Tien Dung where his Vietcong divisions one, three, five, seven, and nine are. What was his answer?

3. What was the goal of Nixon's "Vietnamization," according to the NLF?

4. What became of Tang's two brothers, both of whom had stayed in Saigon throughout the war?

5. What access to information did the leaders of the PRG have in the Maquis?

6. What caused Tran Back Dang to lose acceptance and blight his career with the COSVN?

7. What did Nguyen Van Thieu make clear immediately upon Tran Van Lam's signing of the Paris accords?

8. Why did the imminent signing of a negotiation agreement in Paris fill Tang and the nationalist forces with hope and excitement?

9. How did the members of the PRG survive and live in their rough circumstances?

10. What was the new attitude seen first from the North toward the alliance as exhibited in Chapter 16?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,236 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample