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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Halberstam say Lyndon Johnson felt in the Kennedy administration?
(a) He felt like a teacher among his students.
(b) He felt like a midwesterner among East-coast men.
(c) He felt like a relic of previous administrations.
(d) He felt like a socialist among capitalists.

2. Why hadn't Roosevelt stopped the French from returning to Indochina after the war, in Halberstam's account?
(a) He could not get a censure from the United Nations.
(b) He needed France for its support of American monetary policy.
(c) There was no post-war plan to prevent them.
(d) He did not have the authority to.

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

4. What family was McGeorge Bundy descended from?
(a) The New York Blisses.
(b) The New England Lowells.
(c) The Roosevelts.
(d) The Rockefellers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What had Robert Lovett been before entering government?

3. What did Kennedy ask Chester Bowles for advice on?

4. Which situation had the biggest effect on the Kennedy administration in 1961?

5. What made McGeorge Bundy an effective administrator?

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