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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. Why did Tang undertake a long trip to Dresden, East Germany in Chapter 20?
(a) To have a long-awaiting vacation.
(b) To be trained in new techniques of warfare.
(c) To gather with the Communist Party leaders for a meeting.
(d) To recuperate from illnesses.

2. What did Thieu force university and high school students to do in 1970?
(a) Stay in school at all costs.
(b) Refuse visits with family and friends.
(c) Take jobs within the military.
(d) Attend military and training exercises.

3. Who did Tang's small group meet by chance when they were dropped off near a jungle path on a prisoner exchange mission in Chapter 11?
(a) Tang's wife.
(b) Lien's husband.
(c) Le Duc Tho's brother.
(d) Albert Tho.

4. In Chapter 21, what did Tang discover when he arrived in Saigon and telephoned his parents at his older brother's home?
(a) His father had died.
(b) His brother, Quynh, was in the United States.
(c) His mother was ill.
(d) The police had arrested his wife.

5. What did Tang and his colleagues find to be the necessary connection between Marxism and independence?
(a) There was no necessary connection.
(b) The war against imperialism.
(c) The interdependence of class struggle.
(d) The role of the intelligentsia in the national revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Tang's father allow his sons to interact with outside of the home?

2. Who did Bao Dai name as Prime Minister?

3. What was the meaning of "Danh va dam, dam va dahn"'?

4. Why were Tang and a fellow pharmacy student, Miss Ly, chosen to have tea with Ho Chi Minh?

5. What does "tin," a basic ethical principle in Confucianism, refer to?

(see the answer key)

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