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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Personal morality.
(c) Family values.
(d) Finances.

2. Why hadn't Roosevelt stopped the French from returning to Indochina after the war, in Halberstam's account?
(a) He needed France for its support of American monetary policy.
(b) He did not have the authority to.
(c) He could not get a censure from the United Nations.
(d) There was no post-war plan to prevent them.

3. What had Robert Lovett been before entering government?
(a) An investment banker.
(b) An automobile executive.
(c) A career military officer.
(d) An insurance salesman.

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

5. How long had Ho Chi Minh's communism associations been known to the U.S., in Halberstam's account?
(a) Since 1941.
(b) Since 1946.
(c) Since 1931.
(d) Since 1954.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What events does Halberstam say affected American perceptions of its global priorities?

3. Why was Chester Bowles assigned to a different position?

4. Whom did Kennedy want to act as Secretary of State?

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

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