1. a) Name the capital of Vietnam.
b) What type of government does Vietnam have?

2. Match the following people and organizations with their descriptions. (Write the name of the person/organization next to its description):

Nguyen Van Ly
John Hanford
USCIRF
Chris Smith
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Duy Hoang
Montagnard Foundation
Viet Tan

a) _______________ a U.S.-based representative of Viet Tan

b) _______________ the Vietnamese Reform Party, an underground opposition party to the Communist Vietnamese government founded in 1982

c) _______________ Republican Rep. from New Jersey, who sponsored the Vietnam Human Rights Act

d) _______________ a Catholic priest and former prisoner of conscience who is again imprisonment for distributing anti-government material and communicating with pro-democracy activists abroad

e) _______________ a democracy movement in Vietnam whose name is a reference to its launch date of April 8, 2006

f) _______________ the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent panel set up to advise the executive and legislative branches

g) _______________ a U.S.-based organization representing the predominantly Christian Montagnard minority in Vietnam's Central Highlands

h) _______________ the State Department's ambassador-at-large for religious freedom

3. a) By what numbers did the Vietnam Human Rights Act pass in the House this week?
b) Name the three Congressmen who voted against the bill.

4. List five provisions of the legislation that are mentioned in the article.

5. What is thought to be the Bush administration's reason for removing Vietnam from the U.S. list of "Countries of Particular concern" (CPC)?

6. How did John Hanford, U.S. ambassador for religious freedom, portray religious freedom in Vietnam?
b) Do you agree with Mr. Hanford's assertion? Explain your answer.