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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 statement did Henry Kissinger make in a 1968 "Foreign Affairs" article?
2. What effect did America's invasion into Cambodia have on the NLF?
3. Who does Tang marry in the summer of 1976?
4. What were most of the Southern guerrillas pressing hard for in Chapter 18?
5. When Tang revisited Hanoi in 1974, what did he note about the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why had escaping Vietnam by boat become a great topic of conversation in the first days following northern liberation?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. Why was Prince Sihanouk's removal as head of the Cambodian government a source of anxiety for the NLF?
5. What did General Trung mean when he joked that "even though we ran like hell, still we'll win" in regard to the NLF's retreat from the southern Cambodian border?
6. What was the new attitude seen first from the North toward the alliance as exhibited in Chapter 16?
7. How did Tang come to the difficult conclusion that he had to leave Vietnam after all he had been through?
8. What was the goal of Nixon's "Vietnamization," according to the NLF?
9. When Tang arrived in Hanoi in 1974, after a thirty-year absence, what conditions did he encounter?
10. Why was the organizing congress for the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) held on June 6, 7 and 8, 1969?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why would an open opposition by Vietnam to either China or to the Soviets be hurtful to the emerging nation as far as Tang and the nationalists were concerned? In what ways were the Soviets and the Chinese helpful to Tang's cause?
Essay Topic 2
Who was the main influence upon Tang's political awakening? How did this person come to influence Tang to such a degree in a short period of time?
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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