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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ho Chi Minh give Tang at the end of their afternoon tea together at Montmorency?

2. What did the underground resistance Tang was involved with eventually evolve into?

3. Where did the leadership of the North place its focus in the 1966 resolution?

4. What did Tang's father decide to do when violence began to erupt in Saigon in 1945?

5. What did Nguyen Van Thieu expect of Nixon and Kissinger as indicated in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was it about Ba Tra, one of Tang's support personnel in the Young People's Association, that disturbed Tang?

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

6. Why was Tang needed back home in 1955 more than ever in Chapter 4?

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

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

9. Why was it that President-Designate Tho was unable to be liberated from detention in Tuy Hoa?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the treatment of Tran Buu Kiem and Tran Bach Dang, who made minor blunders in front of Party officials, say about the the COSVN's treatment of leading intellectuals? What was the general tone and spirit of the workers' party at the time of Dang's and Diem's isolation and retirement?

Essay Topic 2

Pham Hung and General Trung of Central Office South Vietnam (COSVN), Communist Party headquarters in South Vietnam, joked that "even though we ran like hell, still we'll win" after Northern forces retreated from southern Cambodian borders to Kratie. Explain the meaning of this quote as it relates to Vietnamese guerrilla fighters. How can the reader interpret Henry Kissinger's similar statement given in a journal article in 1968?

Essay Topic 3

Express an opinion as to whether Tang's and his fellow nationalists' struggles had been in vain. Support your opinion with facts and feelings expressed within the book.

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