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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom did Robert Lovett recommend to Kennedy for Secretary of State?
(a) McGeorge Bundy.
(b) Chester Bowles.
(c) Dean Rusk.
(d) Robert McNamara.

2. What did the Geneva Convention decide in Vietnam?
(a) It established a procedure for holding elections.
(b) It sanctioned the north for its attacks on the south.
(c) It divided the country in two, a north and a south.
(d) It determined how prisoners of war would be exchanged.

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

4. How many troops were in Vietnam when Kennedy was assassinated?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 200,000.

5. What does Halberstam say was the problem with the Kennedy administration's pragmatism?
(a) There were too many crises at once.
(b) It was not backed with muscular diplomacy.
(c) It did not have real-world experience.
(d) It was grounded in academic theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which issue was NOT confronting the nation when the Kennedy administration took office?

2. How big a margin did Kennedy win the presidency by?

3. Whom had Eleanor Roosevelt wanted Kennedy to appoint as Secretary of State?

4. What policy did Rostow support in Vietnam?

5. What does Halberstam say Americans were disunited about in the early 1960s?

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