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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Kennedy see Adlai Stevenson?
(a) He saw Adlai Stevenson as lazy.
(b) He saw Adlai Stevenson as principled.
(c) He saw Adlai Stevenson as indecisive.
(d) He saw Adlai Stevenson as an ideologue.

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

4. Whom had Eleanor Roosevelt wanted Kennedy to appoint as Secretary of State?
(a) Dean Rusk.
(b) Robert McNamara.
(c) Chester Bowles.
(d) Adlai Stevenson.

5. What did the Kennedy administration represent to America?
(a) Elitism and a new American nationalism.
(b) Culture and American cosmopolitanism.
(c) Catholicism and American sectionalism.
(d) Wealth and American individualism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Robert Lovett recommend to Kennedy for Secretary of State?

2. What family was McGeorge Bundy descended from?

3. How does Halberstam say Lyndon Johnson felt in the Kennedy administration?

4. What was Kennedy in the process of doing at the beginning of the book?

5. What position had Robert Lovett been appointed to in 1947?

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