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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. Why did the PRG believe that having Tang's brothers working for the South Vietnamese government might help their cause?
2. What did Tang do for his brother, Bich, in Chapter 22?
3. What statement did Henry Kissinger make in a 1968 "Foreign Affairs" article?
4. What new means of transportation was Vietnam inundated with in 1969 and 1970?
5. When the Ho Chi Minh trail was originally blazed in 1959, how many kilometers were the fighters expected to be able to advance every day?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the NLF fighters do when they were not fighting or sick?
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. Why did the imminent signing of a negotiation agreement in Paris fill Tang and the nationalist forces with hope and excitement?
4. Why had escaping Vietnam by boat become a great topic of conversation in the first days following northern liberation?
5. In what ways did Thieu antagonize students and workers in 1970s Saigon?
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. 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?
8. Why were Nixon and Kissinger unable to comprehend the issues in Vietnam that prevented an American success there?
9. What was the theme of the seminars given to the Alliance/NLF/PRG leaders in Kratie?
10. Why was the organizing congress for the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) held on June 6, 7 and 8, 1969?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Saigon's regime, led by Thieu, refuses to abide by an agreement of the Paris Accord signed by his own foreign minister. Explain Thieu's actions following the signing of the Accord. Discuss the PRG's reaction to Thieu's tactics at this time.
Essay Topic 2
What prevented Nguyen Huu Tho from attending the first meeting of the NLF as its newly-elected president? What were the events leading up to the inability to ensure Tho's presence at that meeting?
Essay Topic 3
What does the treatment of Tran Buu Kiem and Tran Bach Dang, who made minor blunders in front of Party officials, say about the the COSVN's treatment of leading intellectuals? What was the general tone and spirit of the workers' party at the time of Dang's and Diem's isolation and retirement?
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