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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. In what year does John Paul Vann retire from the Army?

2. In what year does the Vann family move to Atlantic City?

3. During the late 1960s, who is the station chief in Vietnam for the pacification-worker project?

4. Who is President of the United States when America expands the war into Cambodia in 1970?

5. In what year is John Paul Vann born?

Short Essay Questions

1. Following the conflicting stories regarding the success of the Battle of Ap Bac, how did Washington, DC, respond?

2. What prominent CIA figure eventually adopted and promoted John Paul Vann's assessment of the Vietnam War? Why was this person important?

3. How did John Paul Vann react to the ARVN "victory" at Ap Bac? How did General Harkins accept John Paul Vann's assessment?

4. Who was the most influential and first real friend that John Paul Vann had? Why did this person have such an impact on John Paul Vann's life?

5. What vital information did John Paul Vann include in a three-page report to General Harkins and Colonel Porter regarding General Huynh Van Cao's approach to the war?

6. What new war tactic, employed by the U.S. marines in 1965, particularly disgusted John Paul Vann and why?

7. What media figure befriends John Paul Vann and is responsible for stealing and leaking the "Pentagon Papers" to the U.S. media? What strategy of John Paul Vann's did this person find most appealing?

8. By this time, what was the political situation in Saigon?

9. Where did the Vann family live during John Paul Vann's childhood?

10. What was John Paul Vann's strategy for turning the war in the United States' favor? How did this differ from the U.S. policy at the time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe five or six of the more prominent attendees at John Paul Vann's funeral. Why do you think each one was there and what was the political, social, or emotional reason for their attendance?

Essay Topic 2

What role did the reporting (or misreporting) of information have during the Vietnam War? How was propaganda used by the ARVN, American, and North Vietnamese, respectively, to further their causes? Please provide 2-3 specific examples for each.

Essay Topic 3

What were some of John Paul Vann's specific duties and responsibilities as a civilian member of the Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam? How did the efforts of this agency improve the conditions of the war for combatants and innocents alike? Was John Paul Vann satisfied with the scope of his AID directives? If not, why not? What more did he feel he needed to do?

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