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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hanoi do in response to U.S. war games in the South?
(a) Send more Vietcong down the trails.
(b) Launch the Gulf of Tonkin attacks.
(c) Seek peace talks.
(d) Withdraw troops from the South.

2. Who was named to head the U.S. command in Saigon in January 1962?
(a) Robert McNamara.
(b) Maxwell Taylor.
(c) Chester Bowles.
(d) Paul Harkins.

3. What had happened to reduce the Communism threat by the time McNamara took over as Secretary of Defense?
(a) Cuba had instituted its own version of Communism.
(b) Communism had failed in North Korea.
(c) Russia and China had split.
(d) McCarthy had purged Communists from American politics.

4. What had Robert Lovett been before entering government?
(a) An insurance salesman.
(b) An automobile executive.
(c) A career military officer.
(d) An investment banker.

5. Where does the book open?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Kennedy's family home in Massachusetts.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Kennedy's Georgetown townhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the problem with the Buddhist monks begin?

2. What did Kennedy represent to Eleanor Roosevelt's followers?

3. What was Paul Kattenburg's view of the war, in early 1964?

4. What did Robert Lovett remember about Kennedy after the assassination?

5. What did the code 34A stand for in the White House?

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