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

2. Whom did Kennedy want to act as Secretary of State?
(a) Chester Bowles.
(b) He was going to abolish the position of Secretary of State.
(c) He was going to act as his own Secretary of State.
(d) Adlai Stevenson.

3. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to David Bruce?
(a) Bruce was felt to be too young.
(b) Bruce was felt to be too academic.
(c) Bruce was felt to be too conservative.
(d) Bruce was felt to be too old.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to McGeorge Bundy?

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

4. What was McNamara beginning to suspect in Vietnam?

5. What does Halberstam say McNamara learned that he had to do in order to argue against nuclear weapons?

(see the answer key)

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