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Women
100
What is the most important feature of Vietnamese culture?
Respect for the family
100
Who created the Vietnam Communist Party?
Ho Chi Minh.
100
Who were the Viet Cong?
Communist guerilla fighters in South Vietnam.
100
What genre of Vietnamese literature is the Paradise of the Blind defying?
Socialist Realism
100
Which woman from the novel took advantage of her own discrimination?
Aunt Tam
200
What is the largest celebration in Vietnamese culture?
Tet
200
Vietnam was part of a French federation before declaring independence, what was its name?
French Indochina.
200
Name one thing the French did for Vietnam
Education/Infrastructure/Trade
200
What Vietnamese language is Paradise of the Blind written in?
Quốc ngữ
200
Why did Que give her nephews all her income and did not care about her own family?
Her nephews were the only male descendants of her lineage left
300
What are the three religions that most Vietnamese people believe in?
Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism
300
From which country was the Land Reform Act inspired?
China
300
When did North Vietnam authorize conscription?
1960
300
When was Socialist Realism first introduced to Vietnamese literature?
1930s
300
What were two of the duties of women in Vietnam?
Tend rice patties and do housework
400
What was the only way poor people could gain influence in pre-colonial eras?
Education and government exams
400
When did North Vietnam authorize conscription?
1960
400
What was the consequence of the crackdown on communism in South Vietnam in 1955?
Ho Chi Minh calls for guerilla attacks in South Vietnam.
400
What is Socialist Realism?
Genres of literature that thematically include simplified and often glorified descriptions of the everyday life of the proletariat
400
What ideal dictated that women should stay at home?
Confucianism
500
What are two of the three languages Vietnamese literature has been written in throughout history?
Chinese, Quốc ngữ, and Chữ nôm
500
When was the turning point of the French Indochina war and what brought this about?
1949 when China began shipping artillery over to North Vietnam.
500
Name all three U.S. presidents during the Vietnam war (when American was fighting) in order from first to last
Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon.
500
What act was ratified by the Vietnamese government in 1982 to grant women equal rights?
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women