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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 break came to Tang and his wife via his wife's brother-in-law?

2. Where were Tang's brothers, Quynh and Bich, sent on June 16, 1975?

3. What new means of transportation was Vietnam inundated with in 1969 and 1970?

4. Where does Tang and his wife live after he decides to go into seclusion??

5. What was Nixon's "Vietnamization" as the NLF saw it?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why were Nixon and Kissinger unable to comprehend the issues in Vietnam that prevented an American success there?

8. How did the COSVN/PRG decide to deal with their recent enemies of the South at the end of the war?

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

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

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

Essay Topic 2

What was the purpose for the NLF's forming of The Movement for Self-Determination? What did the movement hope to accomplish? Why did the movement choose the members it did?

Essay Topic 3

When Tang decided to forgo his pharmacy studies and focus instead on political science, his political views began to sway. In which direction did Tang's new studies take him politically? What did Tang come to understand about the relationship between Vietnam and France?

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