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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 was Kennedy in the process of doing at the beginning of the book?
(a) Winning the election for president.
(b) Serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
(c) Campaigning for president.
(d) Assembling an administration.

2. How does Halberstam say Dean Rusk felt in the Kennedy administration?
(a) He felt like the spokesman of the party.
(b) He felt like a new kid without enough respect.
(c) He felt like the smartest of the bunch.
(d) He always felt like an outsider.

3. What position had Robert Lovett been appointed to in 1947?
(a) Secretary of Defense.
(b) Secretary of State.
(c) Undersecretary of State.
(d) Secretary of the Interior.

4. How did the Kennedy administration see the war in Vietnam?
(a) As a diversion from domestic problems.
(b) As a boon to the military contractors.
(c) As a war against Communism.
(d) As a gift to Asian allies.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made McGeorge Bundy an effective administrator?

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

3. Whom did Kennedy ask to be Secretary of State instead of Adlai Stevenson?

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

5. Why hadn't Roosevelt stopped the French from returning to Indochina after the war, in Halberstam's account?

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