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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 nearly derailed Tang and dozens of others with him of leaving the country by boat?

2. What did Tang and the nationalists feel the Paris agreement would give them an opportunity to do as described in Chapter 18?

3. Why were the various sites for the PRG ministries chosen to be deep within the "Iron Triangle" of sanctuaries and bases, near the Cambodian border?

4. How did Nixon and Kissinger justify the Tet offensive bombings and invasion of Cambodia?

5. As long as American strength supported the Saigon government, how did the NLF feel about the idea of total victory?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Presidential Minister Tran Buu Kiem whisper to Tang during one the last general meetings involving the leadership of the NLF, PRG, the alliance, and the mass organizations?

3. Why had escaping Vietnam by boat become a great topic of conversation in the first days following northern liberation?

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

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

6. How did Tang come to the difficult conclusion that he had to leave Vietnam after all he had been through?

7. Five years after the Communist Party's seminars given to the Alliance/NLF/PRG forces in Kratie, what did Tang come to realize about the cadre's assaults and the party leaders' consequent respect for the nationalist's views?

8. When Tang arrived in Hanoi in 1974, after a thirty-year absence, what conditions did he encounter?

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

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

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

Describe Albert Thao's personality. What was his ultimate mission politically, and why?

Essay Topic 3

Chapter 17 is titled "1972: The Watershed." Explain why, in Tang's study of that year, he terms it a watershed year. What progress has been made in the right direction that provides a turning point for Tang and the North? Use examples that describe both political, internal and military reasons for the "watershed."

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