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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 did Robert Lovett demur about being appointed in the Kennedy administration?
(a) He had health problems.
(b) He was in financial trouble.
(c) He was newly a father.
(d) He did not like Kennedy.

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

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

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

5. Whom did Robert Lovett recommend to Kennedy for Secretary of Defense?
(a) McGeorge Bundy.
(b) Robert McNamara.
(c) Dean Rusk.
(d) Chester Bowles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Halberstam say Lyndon Johnson felt in the Kennedy administration?

2. What did the Kennedy administration represent to America?

3. What does Halberstam say Americans were united about in the early 1960s?

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

5. What did Kennedy represent to Eleanor Roosevelt's followers?

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