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

2. How did Nixon and Kissinger justify the Tet offensive bombings and invasion of Cambodia?

3. Who does Tang marry in the summer of 1976?

4. Why was the main goal of the Northern forces in 1972 to get the U.S. out of Vietnam?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. Why had escaping Vietnam by boat become a great topic of conversation in the first days following northern liberation?

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

8. What did Presidential Minister Tran Buu Kiem whisper to Tang during one the last general meetings involving the leadership of the NLF, PRG, the alliance, and the mass organizations?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What instigated Tang's decision to stay in France after completing his academic studies and resigning from the navy? Describe his thought processes on the matter. What interfered with that decision?

Essay Topic 2

Explain why Tang found Diem's government policies intolerable. What was most distressing about Diem from Tang's point of view?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Albert Thao's personality. What was his ultimate mission politically, and why?

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