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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to J. William Fulbright?
(a) Fublright was too young and inexperienced.
(b) Fulbright did not have the support of Negroes or Jews.
(c) Fulbright had some unresolved scandals in his past.
(d) Fulbright was too old and conservative.

2. What did Robert Lovett remember about Kennedy after the assassination?
(a) Kennedy's kindness and consideration.
(b) Kennedy's weakness in the face of challenges.
(c) Kennedy's youth and inexperience.
(d) Kennedy's romantic ideology.

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

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

5. Whose theories had been used as the basis for expanded militarization in the late 1940s?
(a) George Kennan's.
(b) Robert McNamara's.
(c) Chester Bowles'.
(d) McGeorge Bundy's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Kennedy in the process of doing at the beginning of the book?

3. What committee had Kennedy served on in the Senate?

4. Which problem did NOT arise for the Kennedy administration during 1961?

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

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