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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 committee had Kennedy served on in the Senate?
(a) Military Affairs Committee.
(b) Banking and Finance Committee.
(c) Judiciary Committee.
(d) Foreign Relations Committee.

2. Whose input did the French and Americans ignore about Vietnam, in Halberstam's account?
(a) Lower-level officers.
(b) Diplomats.
(c) Military advisers.
(d) Generals.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the book open?

2. Why didn't Kennedy formulate a China policy, in Halberstam's account?

3. What made McGeorge Bundy an effective administrator?

4. What does Halberstam say was the result of the Chinese Revolution and the McCarthy period?

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

(see the answer key)

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