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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 effect did America's invasion into Cambodia have on the NLF?

2. What did Tang and his colleagues find to be the necessary connection between Marxism and independence?

3. In Chapter 21, what did Tang discover when he arrived in Saigon and telephoned his parents at his older brother's home?

4. What nickname did Madame Phat receive after she spoke of her debt of gratitude to the Party?

5. Upon Tang's visit to Moscow from Algiers, what did his anticipated "vacation" turn out to be?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. What access to information did the leaders of the PRG have in the Maquis?

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

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

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

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

Many of those who joined the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces at its founding had been resistant for years to formally joining such organizations.

Why had these people (most of whom were old friends of Tang) resisted associating themselves politically, regardless of their sympathies for the goals of the NLF? What made them finally decide to take action by 1968?

Essay Topic 3

Express an opinion as to whether Tang's and his fellow nationalists' struggles had been in vain. Support your opinion with facts and feelings expressed within the book.

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