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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Kennedy's position on the Cold War policies of his predecessors?
(a) He was going to continue them.
(b) He was going to end them.
(c) He was going to improve on them.
(d) He did not want to follow them.

2. What mistake had the Kennedy administration made in the Bay of Pigs invasion?
(a) They had not supplied enough men and material.
(b) They had not seen that the Cuban people were not opposed to Castro.
(c) They had not checked the weather for the invasion.
(d) They had underestimated the logistical difficulties of a landing.

3. What position had Robert Lovett been appointed to in 1947?
(a) Secretary of Defense.
(b) Secretary of the Interior.
(c) Secretary of State.
(d) Undersecretary of State.

4. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to J. William Fulbright?
(a) Fublright was too young and inexperienced.
(b) Fulbright had some unresolved scandals in his past.
(c) Fulbright did not have the support of Negroes or Jews.
(d) Fulbright was too old and conservative.

5. Whom did Kennedy ask to be Secretary of State instead of Adlai Stevenson?
(a) Chester Bowles.
(b) Robert McNamara.
(c) McGeorge Bundy.
(d) Dean Rusk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Halberstam say was the problem with the Kennedy administration's pragmatism?

2. What made McGeorge Bundy an effective administrator?

3. What were Eleanor Roosevelt's feelings about Kennedy?

4. What does Halberstam say Americans were united about in the early 1960s?

5. What did Chester Bowles think was the most important issue to confront?

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