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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom had Eleanor Roosevelt wanted Kennedy to appoint as Secretary of State?
(a) Dean Rusk.
(b) Chester Bowles.
(c) Adlai Stevenson.
(d) Robert McNamara.

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

3. What did Kennedy represent to Eleanor Roosevelt's followers?
(a) Old guard.
(b) Businessmen.
(c) Foreigners.
(d) The new breed.

4. How does Halberstam say Dean Rusk felt in the Kennedy administration?
(a) He felt like the spokesman of the party.
(b) He always felt like an outsider.
(c) He felt like a new kid without enough respect.
(d) He felt like the smartest of the bunch.

5. What did the Kennedy administration represent to America?
(a) Wealth and American individualism.
(b) Culture and American cosmopolitanism.
(c) Catholicism and American sectionalism.
(d) Elitism and a new American nationalism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did the first confrontation take place in Indochina?

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

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

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