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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. How did Tang respond when he is asked to join the new government in Vietnam?
2. What American events attracted the attention of the nationalists in 1973?
3. How did Tran Back Dang get himself in trouble with the COSVN in Chapter 19?
4. What statement did Henry Kissinger make in a 1968 "Foreign Affairs" article?
5. How did Nixon and Kissinger justify the Tet offensive bombings and invasion of Cambodia?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was the organizing congress for the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) held on June 6, 7 and 8, 1969?
2. Why had escaping Vietnam by boat become a great topic of conversation in the first days following northern liberation?
3. 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?
4. What access to information did the leaders of the PRG have in the Maquis?
5. Why were Nixon and Kissinger unable to comprehend the issues in Vietnam that prevented an American success there?
6. How did Tang come to the difficult conclusion that he had to leave Vietnam after all he had been through?
7. What caused Tran Back Dang to lose acceptance and blight his career with the COSVN?
8. What became of Tang's two brothers, both of whom had stayed in Saigon throughout the war?
9. What did Article 9 out of the Paris Accord call for the creation of?
10. What was the goal of Nixon's "Vietnamization," according to the NLF?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What instigated Tang's decision to stay in France after completing his academic studies and resigning from the navy? Describe his thought processes on the matter. What interfered with that decision?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Tang's life in the Maquis after his exchange. Why is Tang sentimental about his and the other PRG members' time there?
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