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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Nineteen through Twenty-One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when the city of Hue was taken by the NLF and Northern troops in January, 1968?
(a) The NLF gave the directive to carry out massacres there.
(b) Many people were murdered due to inadequate discipline.
(c) The city was taken peacefully.
(d) Citizens ran away and the city was nearly empty.

2. What became the chief news item on the prison grapevine after an ethnic Chinese labor leader was shot by prison guards and survived her wounds?
(a) The northern army was close to winning the war.
(b) Madame Dang's disappearance and two prisoner executions.
(c) The Americans were trading prisoners of Chinese ethnicity.
(d) Everyone was destined for execution.

3. The taking of Saigon by Northern forces hinged upon the fall of which centrally located city?
(a) Phuoc Long.
(b) Hanoi.
(c) Da Nang.
(d) Ban Me Thuot.

4. Why were the Montagnards' village populations forced by Diem's troops out of the mountains and into the valleys, separating them from their ancestral lands and graves?
(a) To make the tribespeople more accessible to government control.
(b) To relocate populations into more modern, better housing for their own good.
(c) To gain control of the guerrilla troops.
(d) Diem wanted the villagers to recognize his power.

5. What American events attracted the attention of the nationalists in 1973?
(a) Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations.
(b) The re-election of Nixon.
(c) The Watergate scandal.
(d) A book written by Henry Kissinger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Diem preoccupied with throughout his regime?

2. In Chapter 21, what did Tang discover when he arrived in Saigon and telephoned his parents at his older brother's home?

3. What did Tang do at the International Association of Democratic Jurists in Algeria to insult the Soviets?

4. Why was the main goal of the Northern forces in 1972 to get the U.S. out of Vietnam?

5. Why did Tang and his compatriots refuse the radio being offered to them by the Americans readying them for a prisoner exchange?

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