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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How big a margin did Kennedy win the presidency by?
(a) 1,000,000 votes.
(b) 500,000 votes.
(c) 100,000 votes.
(d) 1.5 million votes.

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

4. Where does the book open?
(a) Kennedy's family home in Massachusetts.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Kennedy's Georgetown townhouse.

5. What issue did Joseph McCarthy use to energize voters?
(a) Arms reduction.
(b) Communism conspiracies.
(c) Civil rights.
(d) Tax cuts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Robert Lovett remember about Kennedy after the assassination?

2. Why did Robert Lovett demur about being appointed in the Kennedy administration?

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

4. What did Kennedy ask Chester Bowles for advice on?

5. When did Kennedy become well known in Washington?

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