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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Albert Thao and Tang finally speak to each other about in Chapter 6?
(a) The American government.
(b) Tran Van Don's French ties.
(c) Their involvement with the NLF.
(d) The Diem regime's power.

3. What movement did Tang decide to join after his meeting with Ho Chi Minh?
(a) The Tet Offensive.
(b) Vietnamese independence.
(c) The Fourth Republic.
(d) The French Revolution.

4. What does "tin," a basic ethical principle in Confucianism, refer to?
(a) Love.
(b) Loss of face.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Faithfulness.

5. Why did Tang and his compatriots refuse the radio being offered to them by the Americans readying them for a prisoner exchange?
(a) They feared it might contain a bomb.
(b) They did not want any gifts from the enemy.
(c) Radios were considered disrespectful in their religion.
(d) They thought it might contain an electronic homing device.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the main tenets of Tang's manifesto for the self-determination movement?

2. Where was Tang first subjected to racial prejudice?

3. What did Tang's father ask him in a letter towards the end of 1951?

4. By the end of 1958, who were basically the only people who supported Diem's regime?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Tang confused when he received a letter from his father in Chapter 3?

2. Why did Tang's father decide each of his sons' careers for them?

3. What was Tang's main goal during his early leadership of the Young People's Association?

4. What impressed Tang so much when he discovered what Ho Chi Minh was through while he met with Tang and a fellow student for tea?

5. What was the main goal of the movement for self-determination?

6. Why was it that Diem did not have the loyalty of his subjects, the South Vietnamese people?

7. How did the NLF become dominated by the Communist Party and the Northern government?

8. Why did Air Marshal Ky and his partner, Nguyen Van Thieu, make an attempt to disrupt Americans meeting with Dang's deputy, a cadre named Sau Ha?

9. What kind of secrecy was involved in the first meeting of the NLF?

10. How did Tang's friend, Albert Thao, come to be closely involved with Ngo Dinh Diem?

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