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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 establish peace.
(b) How to go about fighting Communism.
(c) How to reduce nuclear weapons.
(d) How to balance the budget.

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

3. Why didn't Kennedy formulate a China policy, in Halberstam's account?
(a) He didn't have time.
(b) His China advisor had not been confirmed.
(c) China was experiencing a revolution.
(d) China was not a high priority.

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

5. How did Kennedy see Adlai Stevenson?
(a) He saw Adlai Stevenson as principled.
(b) He saw Adlai Stevenson as indecisive.
(c) He saw Adlai Stevenson as an ideologue.
(d) He saw Adlai Stevenson as lazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Kennedy's relationship with the press during his presidential campaign?

2. How many soldiers had the U.S. sent to Vietnam in its first commitment of troops?

3. What does Halberstam say happened that strained the relationship between Diem and the Buddhists?

4. How does Halberstam say McNamara learned about the affairs in Vietnam?

5. When did Kennedy become well known in Washington?

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