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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Robert Lovett remember about Kennedy after the assassination?
(a) Kennedy's youth and inexperience.
(b) Kennedy's romantic ideology.
(c) Kennedy's kindness and consideration.
(d) Kennedy's weakness in the face of challenges.

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

3. What does Halberstam say was Robert McNamara's role in the White House policy discussions?
(a) McNamara enforced Kennedy's will.
(b) McNamara followed the will of the other advisers.
(c) McNamara filled in the details of others' plans.
(d) McNamara dominated discussions.

4. What problem does Halberstam say Maxwell Taylor had in Vietnam?
(a) Taylor could not get honest reporting.
(b) Taylor could not understand how the Vietcong withstood the bombings.
(c) Taylor could not convince his superiors that conditions were bad.
(d) Taylor could not control things like he had elsewhere.

5. Whom did Robert Lovett recommend to Kennedy for Secretary of Defense?
(a) Dean Rusk.
(b) McGeorge Bundy.
(c) Robert McNamara.
(d) Chester Bowles.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Halberstam say that McNamara realized he had been misled about the conditions in Vietnam?

2. What was the logic behind the U.S.'s actions after the 1961 fact-finding mission?

3. Who oversaw domestic operations of the operation code named 34A?

4. Where does the book open?

5. What does Halberstam say was the effect of the Gulf of Tonkin incident on the U.S. government?

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