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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 were Eleanor Roosevelt's feelings about Kennedy?
(a) She distrusted his Catholicism.
(b) She admired his leadership.
(c) She resented his inexperience.
(d) She did not entirely trust him.

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

3. What does Halberstam say was the sense in the Kennedy administration as they came into office?
(a) They were going to institute a new era of peace.
(b) They were going to conquer the Russians.
(c) They were going to continue the country's prosperity.
(d) They were going to get the country moving again.

4. What was Kennedy's relationship with the press during his presidential campaign?
(a) He had a contentious relationship with the press.
(b) He had to quash a few stories that were critical to his campaign.
(c) He had the support of most of the press.
(d) He had a number of hostile enemies in the press.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Halberstam say Kennedy had done in response to the meeting with Russians in Vienna?

2. What was Kennedy's position on the Cold War policies of his predecessors?

3. How long had Ho Chi Minh's communism associations been known to the U.S., in Halberstam's account?

4. What position did the Kennedy administration take with regard to nuclear disarmament?

5. Whom did Robert Lovett recommend to Kennedy for Secretary of State?

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