A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Neil Sheehan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Neil Sheehan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, "Antecedents to a Confrontation".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ARVN forces are often sent to level villages suspected of being what?
(a) Predominantly Buddhist.
(b) Vietcong positions.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Disloyal to the South Vietnamese government.

2. Which intelligence officer, assigned to work with Vann, lives by the motto "know your foe", setting up an elaborate system of informants and launching an exhaustive data file on the Vietcong?
(a) Edward Lansdale.
(b) J. Edgar Hoover.
(c) William Westmoreland.
(d) Jim Drummond.

3. John Paul Vann is born during what era?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) The Alaskan Gold Rush.
(c) The Spanish-American War.
(d) The 1950s.

4. John Paul Vann admires the "peasant army" of the South Vietnamese, citing these two traits as particularly endearing:
(a) Friendliness and good aim.
(b) Cheerfulness and endurance.
(c) Cooking skills and knowledge of combat tactics.
(d) Industriousness and creativity.

5. After numerous wars with the Chinese and the French, the Vietnamese adopt the following military philosophy which gives the forces of Ho Chi Minh courage during the First and Second Indochina Wars:
(a) An ostensibly weaker force, properly guided, can defeat a stronger one.
(b) He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
(c) Non-violence is better than war.
(d) Dominance through superior numbers is the only path to victory.

Short Answer Questions

1. This person is an influential figure in stabilizing the national government of the Philippines during the 1950s and was sent to South Vietnam to see if he could do the same there.

2. Which of the following is another aspect of John Paul Vann's personality mentioned in "The Funeral"?

3. Which of the following cities is the site of the Vietnamese imperial palace?

4. During the early 1960s, the Vietcong forces are _______________ in comparison to the ARVN troops.

5. One of the early propaganda efforts on the part of Diem's South Vietnamese government is to try to identify all Viet Minh as __________________.

(see the answer key)

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