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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the war going well, at the time when the White House was losing faith in Diem, according to Halberstam?
(a) In Pleiku.
(b) Around Saigon.
(c) In Quang Nam.
(d) In the Mekong Delta.

2. What does Halberstam say happened that strained the relationship between Diem and the Buddhists?
(a) The government seized land and temples from the Buddhists.
(b) The Buddhists martyred themselves in opposition to the government.
(c) The government raided the pagodas and blamed it on the army.
(d) The Buddhists instigated confrontations with the army.

3. What does Halberstam say marked the end of the generals' faith in Diem?
(a) The raid on the pagodas.
(b) The backlash against the army after the botched raids on the pagodas.
(c) The influence of American interests on Diem's government.
(d) The drought and subsequent humanitarian crisis.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose theories had been used as the basis for expanded militarization in the late 1940s?

3. Where does Halberstam say McNamara found people to work under him as Secretary of Defense?

4. Why didn't Kennedy formulate a China policy, in Halberstam's account?

5. What does Halberstam say conditions were like in South Vietnam by the end of 1964?

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