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

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

3. What was the prime enemy of the guerrillas considered to be in the jungle?

4. What did Tang hope to obtain upon his trip as part of the PRG's delegation at Algiers' independence celebration?

5. What were "elephant's intestines?"

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What did the NLF fighters do when they were not fighting or sick?

3. How had the Ho Chi Minh Trail changed from when it was first created in 1959 until Tang returned to travel it in 1974?

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

5. What did Article 9 out of the Paris Accord call for the creation of?

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

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

8. What was the theme of the seminars given to the Alliance/NLF/PRG leaders in Kratie?

9. How did the NLF gain the support of the local population near Kratie, along the western banks of the Mekong?

10. Why does Tang come out of retirement and return to Saigon?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) was formed in response to Nixon's Vietnamization strategies. Explain the domestic, international and diplomatic goals of the PRG.

Essay Topic 3

When Tang was abducted by the secret police, he was put into a prison to be tortured. Why was Tang reluctant to admit to the police that he was a communist if it would avoid further torture? What brought Tang to finally admit on paper that he was a communist, when he truly was not? How might this false admission effect Tang's political life in the future?

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