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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 was Kennedy's position on the Cold War policies of his predecessors?
(a) He was going to improve on them.
(b) He was going to end them.
(c) He did not want to follow them.
(d) He was going to continue them.

2. What does Halberstam say Kennedy had done in response to the meeting with Russians in Vienna?
(a) He sent an advisory committee to Vietnam.
(b) He removed troops from Poland.
(c) He increased troop strength in Berlin.
(d) He reduced America's nuclear arsenal.

3. Why hadn't Roosevelt stopped the French from returning to Indochina after the war, in Halberstam's account?
(a) He needed France for its support of American monetary policy.
(b) There was no post-war plan to prevent them.
(c) He did not have the authority to.
(d) He could not get a censure from the United Nations.

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

5. Why was Chester Bowles assigned to a different position?
(a) He had been caught saying embarrassing things on an open mic.
(b) He had quarreled with Bobby Kennedy over who was in charge in Kennedy's absence.
(c) He had disgraced himself by having an affair with one of his pages.
(d) He had leaked confidential information to the press.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position had Robert Lovett been appointed to in 1947?

2. What policies had Robert Lovett been involved in crafting?

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

4. How did Kennedy see Adlai Stevenson?

5. What does Halberstam say was the problem with the Kennedy administration's pragmatism?

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