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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. What was the meaning of "Danh va dam, dam va dahn"'?
(a) Warfare and peace, peace and warfare.
(b) Freedom and slavery, slavery and freedom.
(c) Invasion and power, power and invasion.
(d) Fighting and talking, talking and fighting.

2. 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) Albert Tho.
(c) Lien's husband.
(d) Le Duc Tho's brother.

3. What did the flag devised for the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam later become famous as?
(a) The flag that anti-Vietnam War demonstrators in America displayed.
(b) A sign of peace for the South.
(c) The flag of the Vietcong.
(d) A flag used on Diem's coffin.

4. What school subject did Tang enjoy more so than chemistry?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) French.
(c) Music.
(d) History.

5. Why did the NLF Committee meet in 1961 during Tet?
(a) It was the best seasonal weather.
(b) Government security would be lax at that time.
(c) Members could bring their family with them if desired.
(d) So the members could meet during a celebratory time of year.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Tao Thao?

2. Who was Thuy Ba?

3. What was the best-known Ho Chi Minh slogan?

4. How did Tang know Albert Pham Ngoc Thao?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Tang come to be made chief of his neighborhood contingent of the Vanguard Youth?

2. What were Tang's feelings toward America when he returned to Saigon in 1955?

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

4. Why was it that the National Liberation Front was not anxious to see President Diem overthrown?

5. What compromise was reached for Vietnam in May of 1954?

6. How did Tang first experience racial discrimination?

7. What were defined as the broad objectives of the mobilization committee for the peace movement?

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

9. What did Tang's father tell him in an unexpected letter in 1951?

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

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