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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. How could the significance of the Alliance and the PRG be substantially reenhanced?
(a) If the Alliance and the PRG overtake the COSVN.
(b) If a decisive military outcome is reached.
(c) If the ARVN wins the war.
(d) In the event of a political compromise.

2. According to Tang in Chapter 16, how did America regard the country of Vietnam?
(a) As an independent nation.
(b) With a view toward economic progress.
(c) As a country of people to be saved.
(d) As a pawn of strategy.

3. Who was responsible for Tang's daughter, Loan, being able to do to college in America?
(a) President Tho.
(b) His brother, Quynh.
(c) Ho Chi Minh.
(d) President Thieu's wife.

4. What was Tang's last official function in Algeria?
(a) Going to the funeral of Queen Kosamak.
(b) Congratulating the Khmer representative on the victory in Phnom Penh.
(c) Celebrating a victory with Prince Sihanouk.
(d) Having tea with Madame Binh.

5. What were the watchwords of the danh va dam strategy used throughout the Paris talks?
(a) Separate and isolate.
(b) Unionize and gather.
(c) Fight and win.
(d) Contradict and stimulate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Tang undertake a long trip to Dresden, East Germany in Chapter 20?

2. Who was the only professional sailor on board the boat Tang and his wife escaped on?

3. What nearly derailed Tang and dozens of others with him of leaving the country by boat?

4. What was Ba Cap's personality like?

5. What American events attracted the attention of the nationalists in 1973?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the new attitude seen first from the North toward the alliance as exhibited in Chapter 16?

2. How had the Ho Chi Minh Trail changed from when it was first created in 1959 until Tang returned to travel it in 1974?

3. What did Nguyen Van Thieu make clear immediately upon Tran Van Lam's signing of the Paris accords?

4. How did Tang come to the difficult conclusion that he had to leave Vietnam after all he had been through?

5. When Tang arrived in Hanoi in 1974, after a thirty-year absence, what conditions did he encounter?

6. When Tang visited Budapest in Chapter 20, what might be said to have been the motives of the Budapest government while they treated Tang to a visitor's tour and comforts?

7. Why did the imminent signing of a negotiation agreement in Paris fill Tang and the nationalist forces with hope and excitement?

8. Five years after the Communist Party's seminars given to the Alliance/NLF/PRG forces in Kratie, what did Tang come to realize about the cadre's assaults and the party leaders' consequent respect for the nationalist's views?

9. At the celebration for the victory of the North in Saigon, Tang asked Van Tien Dung where his Vietcong divisions one, three, five, seven, and nine are. What was his answer?

10. How did the NLF gain the support of the local population near Kratie, along the western banks of the Mekong?

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