Question 1
3 / 3 pts
The author compares the population of Vietnam to the US by saying comparatively 95
% of the American population would live between a Vietnamese coastline and the
mountains of Vietnam approximating the US. and the Appalachian Mountains of the
eastern seaboard:
True
False
Question 2
3 / 3 pts
According to the author Phan Boi Chau’s attempt to lead Vietnam into modern politics
failed against whom?
The Chinese
The French
The English
The Americans
Question 3
3 / 3 pts
The name (misname) of Vietnam originally was Annam which meant:
Pacified South
Natural Division
Tiger of the South
Land of Free
Question 4
3 / 3 pts
Which part of Vietnam is the primary rice growing agricultural area?
West
Mountainous North
Eastern Beaches
Southern Delta
Question 5
3 / 3 pts
According to the text, in 1890 the French were harsh imperial overlords of the
Vietnamese controlling rice exports and the price of salt.
True
False
Question 6
3 / 3 pts
In 1885 Phan Din Phung led a guerilla uprising against the French from where until
1896?
The Mountains on the coast
The Western Mountains
The Southern Mountains
The Northern Mountains
Question 7
3 / 3 pts
According to the text, around 1400 what kingdoms existed in what is currently Vietnam?
Khmer Empire, Champa, Viet Kingdom.
Cochin, Viet Kingdom, Khmer
Khmer, Champa, Viet Kingdoms
Cambodia, Cochin and Khmer
None of the Above
Question 8
3 / 3 pts
For a thousand years, from the Trung Sisters of 33 AD until the Mongols, the
Vietnamese engaged in irregular (guerilla) warfare against the Chinese for about a
thousand years?
True
False
Question 9
3 / 3 pts
Geographically the Truong Son(g) (Long) Mountains offshoots nearly divide Vietnam
relatively speaking and reaching the sea where?
North
coastal Central Vietnam
South
West
Question 10
3 / 3 pts
Who are the various tribal people of the Mountains of Vietnam whose locations
transcended national borders, and are the natural enemies of the Vietnamese and later
to be exploited by the Americans during their war there?
Hwang
Nepalese
Montagnards
Hwong
Question 11
3 / 3 pts
From the Ming Dynasty forward until the French, the Vietnamese basically maintained
their independence from the Chinese:
True
False
Question 12
3 / 3 pts
According to the author opinion in the text, the French tended to benefit those colonists
who were ?
Revolutionary’s leading guerilla operations
Buddhist Farmers (the majority of Vietnamese)
Christians or Crooks
None of the Above
Question 13
3 / 3 pts
What are the two largest cities in Vietnam historically located north and south ?
Hue and Hanoi
Hanoi and Saigon
Binh Dinh and Annam
Ho Chi Minh City and Saigon
Question 14
3 / 3 pts
The Japanese responded to American foreign policy changes by:
Requesting the Vichy French for permission to enter Southern Vietnam
Joining the tri-partite pact with Germany
Threatening the oil and mineral rich Dutch East Indies and British Malaya
All of the Above
Question 15
3 / 3 pts
As the French poured back into Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh offered to give Vietnam to what
nation-state as a trust territory in preparation for independence?
France
Great Britain
China
The United States
Question 16
3 / 3 pts
According to the author, in December of 1946 war began between Viet Minh and French
troops where?
Hanoi
Saigon
Annam
Cochin China
Question 17
3 / 3 pts
As a result of Japanese movement into Tonkin and northern Annam the United States:
Froze Ties
Initiated an oil embargo
Moved the Fleet to Pearl Harbor
All of the Above
Question 18
3 / 3 pts
Ho Chi Minh entered Vietnam from China and sought to wage guerilla warfare against
the Japanese and the French in 1941 with his comrade and future military leader:
Vo Nguyen Giap
Phac Moung Phou
Le Duc Tho
Tran Thien Khiem
Question 19
3 / 3 pts
Ho’s first attempt to recruit Vietnamese in China ended with the ascension of power by
whom? :
Sun Yat-Sen
Chou-En Lai
Chiang Kai-shek
Joseph Stalin
Question 20
3 / 3 pts
As the puppet-emperor of the Japanese and recently abdicated Bao Dai returned to
power in Vietnam as a “front man” for the French, the recognition of Vietnam by what
foreign powers may have been instrumental in the U.S. decision to support the French?
USSR and North Korea
China and the USSR
East Germany (DDR) and North Korea
All of the Above
Question 21
3 / 3 pts
The Author maintains that the war in Vietnam with the French occurred the same time
as the Cold War initiated containment in what Civil War?
Italian
Iranian
Greek
None of the Above
Question 22
3 / 3 pts
A major point of contention between the Vietnamese and the French surrounded the
protectorates of ____________ and the French Colony of _____________.
Cochin, Annam and Tonkin
Annam and Tonkin, Cochin
Viet, Champa, Cochin
Vietnam, Annam
I Question 23
0 / 3 pts
The agreement reached by the Vietnamese and French were that France troops would
be stationed in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam for __________years?
Four
Five
Six
None of the Above
Question 24
3 / 3 pts
The French sought to take Dien Bien Phu for the purpose of securing:
The western mountains of Vietnam
The coastal enclaves of Vietnam
The Ho Chi Minh trail
The border of Vietnam and Annam
Question 25
3 / 3 pts
During World War II, Ho Chi Minh worked with the OSS (Office of Strategic Services, the
forerunner of the CIA)
True
False
