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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 did the Party ideologues decide the NLF troops should do for three months in Kratie?

2. Why did Tang undertake a long trip to Dresden, East Germany in Chapter 20?

3. What was the reason behind the National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord as described in Article 9 of the Paris Accords?

4. What did Tang do for his brother, Bich, in Chapter 22?

5. What was Sihanouk's title in Cambodia in early 1970?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the NLF gain the support of the local population near Kratie, along the western banks of the Mekong?

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

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

4. What did General Trung mean when he joked that "even though we ran like hell, still we'll win" in regard to the NLF's retreat from the southern Cambodian border?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) was formed in response to Nixon's Vietnamization strategies. Explain the domestic, international and diplomatic goals of the PRG.

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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