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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 issue had Kennedy and Dean Rusk had to discuss when Dean Rusk was offered the Secretary of State job?
(a) Family values.
(b) Personal morality.
(c) Finances.
(d) Rusk's Judaism.

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

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

4. Which cabinet member was opposed to the Bay of Pigs invasion?
(a) McGeorge Bundy.
(b) Robert McNamara.
(c) Chester Bowles.
(d) Dean Rusk.

5. What does Halberstam say Americans were united about in the early 1960s?
(a) The need to fight Communism.
(b) The need to establish military supremacy.
(c) The need to balance the budget.
(d) The need to grant civil rights.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Geneva Convention decide in Vietnam?

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

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

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

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