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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Seven through Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the end of 1958, who were basically the only people who supported Diem's regime?
(a) Nationalist-minded Vietnamese.
(b) The tribespeople from the mountains.
(c) The French.
(d) Northern Catholic refugees and those who profited from Diem's schemes.

2. What term does Truong Nhu Tang use to describe his childhood?
(a) Wealthy communists.
(b) Protected isolation.
(c) Family cocoon.
(d) Family of eight.

3. How did Albert Thao capitalize on his role of investigating army officers for disloyalty to Diem?
(a) He developed relationships with prominent military figures.
(b) He did not have to work very hard.
(c) He would plan a coup in this way.
(d) He was able to spy on anyone he pleased.

4. What were Agrovilles?
(a) A capitalistic branch of society.
(b) A method of increasing revenue for farmers.
(c) A government project of self-contained villages.
(d) Villages in which to house captured enemies.

5. What did Tang's wife do to help lessen his prison sentence in Chapter 9?
(a) She divorced him in hopes he would fight to be released.
(b) She wrote a letter to the president.
(c) She informed the foreign press of Tang's prediciment.
(d) She bribed the tribunal president.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did Tang take at the end of Chapter 5?

2. Why did Tang's early mobilization committee in Chapter 7 send Nguyen Van Hieu to Hanoi?

3. What did Tang's grandfather teach his clan each Sunday?

4. Who did the U.S. government signal its willingness to support upon abandoning its support of Diem in the early 1960s?

5. What job did Tang take at the Societe Sucriere?

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