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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Sixteen through Eighteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did President Thao lead the alliance delegation in the spring of 1969?
(a) A skirmish with the secret police in Saigon.
(b) A meeting with President Johnson.
(c) To the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(d) A visit to Hanoi.

2. Who did Bao Dai name as Prime Minister?
(a) Zhou En-Lai.
(b) Vo Nguyen Giap.
(c) Ngo Dinh Diem.
(d) Chau Van Tiep.

3. What did Nguyen Van Thieu do when he discovered a prisoner exchange being negotiated between the Americans and the North?
(a) He had Sau Ha, Dang's deputy, arrested.
(b) He resigned his position.
(c) He was in favor of the program and promoted it.
(d) He told the Americans to pull out of his country.

4. Why did the province of Ben Tre become peaceful as opposed to its violent reputation?
(a) Villages were set up there to control the people.
(b) The Vietcong could not infiltrate the area.
(c) Albert Thao became its province chief.
(d) Diem bombed the area.

5. Who was Thuy Ba?
(a) Ho Chi Minh's wife.
(b) The doctor who oversaw Tang's care after he was exchanged as a prisoner.
(c) The woman who would become Tang's third wife.
(d) A Communist Party leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Thieu force university and high school students to do in 1970?

2. When Tang was in solitary confinement in the national police headquarters, what saved him from lapsing into permanent catatonia?

3. How did Albert Thao become a trusted member of Diem's administration?

4. What happened to Tang ten days before Albert Thao attempted a coup on Khan's regime?

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

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