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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Halberstam say Kennedy was feeling about the war at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Frustrated.
(b) Optimistic.
(c) Dispirited.
(d) Enthusiastic.

2. What issue had Kennedy and Dean Rusk had to discuss when Dean Rusk was offered the Secretary of State job?
(a) Rusk's Judaism.
(b) Finances.
(c) Personal morality.
(d) Family values.

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

4. What does Halberstam say was Lyndon Johnson's feeling about the coup?
(a) He endorsed it.
(b) He turned a blind eye to it.
(c) He proposed it.
(d) He opposed it.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Kennedy see Adlai Stevenson?

3. What does Halberstam say was the result of the Chinese Revolution and the McCarthy period?

4. What policy did Rostow support in Vietnam?

5. What does Halberstam say Americans were disunited about in the early 1960s?

(see the answer key)

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