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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 one of the main tenets of Tang's manifesto for the self-determination movement?
(a) Henry Cabot Lodge should resign from office.
(b) People living in villages would move to the mountains.
(c) Ho Chi Minh would be allowed to lead North and South Vietnam.
(d) America should not intervene in Vietnam.

2. What punishment did the tribunal bestow upon Tang, besides prison, that may have interfered deeply with Tang's credibility within Vietnamese society?
(a) A newspaper editorial.
(b) Suspension from his job.
(c) His driver's license was revoked.
(d) A hefty monetary fine.

3. What is COSVN which is described in Chapter 11?
(a) The North Vietnamese politburo.
(b) The Northern Vietnamese army forces.
(c) A leadership group made up of delegates from the Worker's Party.
(d) The National Liberation Front system.

4. Why did the province of Ben Tre become peaceful as opposed to its violent reputation?
(a) Albert Thao became its province chief.
(b) The Vietcong could not infiltrate the area.
(c) Diem bombed the area.
(d) Villages were set up there to control the people.

5. 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 relocate populations into more modern, better housing for their own good.
(b) To make the tribespeople more accessible to government control.
(c) Diem wanted the villagers to recognize his power.
(d) To gain control of the guerrilla troops.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movement did Tang decide to join after his meeting with Ho Chi Minh?

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

3. Why was the Northern Vietnamese government fearful of American involvement in the fighting in Vietnam in the early 1960s?

4. What did Tang do in regards to his pharmaceutical studies in Chapter 3?

5. Why did the guards forget to feed Tang and the other prisoners in the police headquarters for a couple of days in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who helped Tang's father raise Tang and his five brothers?

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

4. Within three years of Diem's presidency, what was apparent about the leader concerning his political endeavors?

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

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

7. Why did Tang and his associates want to keep the American military from becoming involved in the Vietnamese conflict?

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

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

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

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