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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 directives emerged from a COSVN/PRG meeting held in Chapter 22?

2. How could the importance of Tang's and his colleague's roles be measured in Chapter 16?

3. Which unit member was very popular for what he could provide the guerrillas with?

4. What was the PRG opposed to?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. Why was the organizing congress for the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) held on June 6, 7 and 8, 1969?

9. What did General Trung mean when he joked that "even though we ran like hell, still we'll win" in regard to the NLF's retreat from the southern Cambodian border?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe Tang's life in the Maquis after his exchange. Why is Tang sentimental about his and the other PRG members' time there?

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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