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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Halberstam say McNamara learned that he had to do in order to argue against nuclear weapons?
(a) Make emotional appeals to the electorate.
(b) Demonize his opponents.
(c) Make a good argument for conventional weapons.
(d) Discredit military analysts in favor of nuclear weapons.

2. What event does Halberstam say triggered bombing operations against the North?
(a) The Bay of Pigs invasion.
(b) A North Vietnamese attack on American B-57 bombers.
(c) A North Vietnamese success in the Mekong Delta.
(d) The Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

3. Where does Halberstam say McNamara found people to work under him as Secretary of Defense?
(a) The auto industry.
(b) Boeing.
(c) England.
(d) Academia.

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

5. What events does Halberstam say affected American perceptions of its global priorities?
(a) The escalation of the Cold War and the fall of China.
(b) The revolution in Cuba.
(c) The agitation of labor unions in America and Europe.
(d) The tension over civil rights in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had McNamara done by the time he took over as Secretary of Defense?

2. What plan was the U.S. government preparing for by the end of 1964?

3. What position did Maxwell Taylor begin to support as a result of his late 1964 trip to Vietnam?

4. What does Halberstam say Maxwell Taylor discovered was true about Khanh?

5. What were people calling for by Thanksgiving 1964, in Halberstam's account?

(see the answer key)

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