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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 was too old and conservative.
(c) Fulbright did not have the support of Negroes or Jews.
(d) Fulbright had some unresolved scandals in his past.

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

3. 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.

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

5. How does Halberstam say Lyndon Johnson felt in the Kennedy administration?
(a) He felt like a socialist among capitalists.
(b) He felt like a midwesterner among East-coast men.
(c) He felt like a teacher among his students.
(d) He felt like a relic of previous administrations.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Kennedy administration see the war in Vietnam?

2. Whose input did the French and Americans ignore about Vietnam, in Halberstam's account?

3. What issue did Joseph McCarthy use to energize voters?

4. How many soldiers had the U.S. sent to Vietnam in its first commitment of troops?

5. Whose theories had been used as the basis for expanded militarization in the late 1940s?

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