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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. Why did the PRG believe that having Tang's brothers working for the South Vietnamese government might help their cause?
(a) Family ties in the government gave the public reassurance about Tang.
(b) One of the brothers could become a spy.
(c) Tang could be viewed as a double agent.
(d) A brother's family could be held hostage in the future.

2. What was Nixon's "Vietnamization" as the NLF saw it?
(a) A step-up of American ground troops.
(b) An attempt to portray Vietnam as a civil conflict.
(c) A way to strike at a peace settlement for North and South.
(d) A political maneuver to stop opposition to the war.

3. What did Tang do at the International Association of Democratic Jurists in Algeria to insult the Soviets?
(a) Walked away from a statement made by the Soviet delegate.
(b) Denounced the Soviets stance in a speech.
(c) Refused to shake hands with the Soviet delegate to the conference.
(d) Made a rude comment to a Soviet delegate and tried to retract it.

4. Where did the Northern escape routes directly lead to?
(a) The Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(b) Cambodia's Pre Veng Province.
(c) Laos.
(d) Kratie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect did America's invasion into Cambodia have on the NLF?

2. What were most of the Southern guerrillas pressing hard for in Chapter 18?

3. What did Tang and the nationalists feel the Paris agreement would give them an opportunity to do as described in Chapter 18?

4. What did Hai Thuan, a Southern cadre of the Vietminh in its war against the French, do in Chapter 22?

5. What did Tang do for his brother, Bich, in Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tang come out of retirement and return to Saigon?

2. What became of Tang's two brothers, both of whom had stayed in Saigon throughout the war?

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

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

5. Why was the organizing congress for the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) held on June 6, 7 and 8, 1969?

6. 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?

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

8. Why was Prince Sihanouk's removal as head of the Cambodian government a source of anxiety for the NLF?

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

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

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