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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Halberstam say Americans were disunited about in the early 1960s?
(a) How to balance the budget.
(b) How to go about fighting Communism.
(c) How to reduce nuclear weapons.
(d) How to establish peace.

2. Whose theories had been used as the basis for expanded militarization in the late 1940s?
(a) Robert McNamara's.
(b) McGeorge Bundy's.
(c) Chester Bowles'.
(d) George Kennan's.

3. 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 government raided the pagodas and blamed it on the army.
(c) The Buddhists martyred themselves in opposition to the government.
(d) The Buddhists instigated confrontations with the army.

4. What did the fact-finding mission discover at about the time of the problem with the Buddhist monks?
(a) The North was expanding its recruitment.
(b) Diem was not on top of the situation.
(c) The U.S. was unprepared for guerilla warfare.
(d) Vast corruption.

5. How does Halberstam say McNamara learned about the affairs in Vietnam?
(a) By reading reports.
(b) By seeing for himself.
(c) By talking to people.
(d) By conducting academic studies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to J. William Fulbright?

2. How did the Kennedy administration see the war in Vietnam?

3. What did the U.S. embassy offer to Diem and Nhu when the coup began?

4. What issue had Kennedy and Dean Rusk had to discuss when Dean Rusk was offered the Secretary of State job?

5. How does Halberstam say Kennedy was feeling about the war at the beginning of Chapter 15?

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