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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What issue did Joseph McCarthy use to energize voters?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Communism conspiracies.
(c) Tax cuts.
(d) Arms reduction.

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

4. When did McNamara say the U.S. would be out of Vietnam, when he visited the country?
(a) By the beginning of 1966.
(b) By 1970.
(c) By the end of 1968.
(d) By the end of 1965.

5. Why did the Americans back down on demands for reform in Vietnam in 1962, in Halberstam's account?
(a) Diem had begun to renege on his promises.
(b) Reforms had already been accomplished.
(c) Diem could not afford reforms.
(d) They lost confidence that reforms could be implemented.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was the war going well, at the time when the White House was losing faith in Diem, according to Halberstam?

3. What rule does Halberstam say Kennedy was following in trying to appoint a Secretary of State?

4. What does Halberstam say happened that threatened the relationship between Diem and the Buddhists?

5. When did Kennedy become well known in Washington?

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