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

2. What nickname did Madame Phat receive after she spoke of her debt of gratitude to the Party?

3. Why was an advisory Council of Elders formed during the Provisional Revolutionary Government's (PRG) congress?

4. How could the importance of Tang's and his colleague's roles be measured in Chapter 16?

5. Why did the PRG believe that having Tang's brothers working for the South Vietnamese government might help their cause?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What was the theme of the seminars given to the Alliance/NLF/PRG leaders in Kratie?

4. What access to information did the leaders of the PRG have in the Maquis?

5. 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?

6. What caused Tran Back Dang to lose acceptance and blight his career with the COSVN?

7. Why were Nixon and Kissinger unable to comprehend the issues in Vietnam that prevented an American success there?

8. What was the goal of Nixon's "Vietnamization," according to the NLF?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many of those who joined the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces at its founding had been resistant for years to formally joining such organizations.

Why had these people (most of whom were old friends of Tang) resisted associating themselves politically, regardless of their sympathies for the goals of the NLF? What made them finally decide to take action by 1968?

Essay Topic 2

What were Tang's family's expectations for the way he should lead his life? What disappointments, if any, were faced by Tang's father as they applied to his son and how did his father react to these disappointments?

Essay Topic 3

Chapter 17 is titled "1972: The Watershed." Explain why, in Tang's study of that year, he terms it a watershed year. What progress has been made in the right direction that provides a turning point for Tang and the North? Use examples that describe both political, internal and military reasons for the "watershed."

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