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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 set the PRG leaders apart from the rest of the organization?

2. What American events attracted the attention of the nationalists in 1973?

3. Who was responsible for Tang's daughter, Loan, being able to do to college in America?

4. What happened when the city of Hue was taken by the NLF and Northern troops in January, 1968?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. When Tang visited Budapest in Chapter 20, what might be said to have been the motives of the Budapest government while they treated Tang to a visitor's tour and comforts?

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

8. In what ways did Thieu antagonize students and workers in 1970s Saigon?

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

10. Why was Prince Sihanouk's removal as head of the Cambodian government a source of anxiety for the NLF?

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

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."

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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