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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 event does Halberstam say triggered bombing operations against the North?
(a) A North Vietnamese attack on American B-57 bombers.
(b) The Bay of Pigs invasion.
(c) A North Vietnamese success in the Mekong Delta.
(d) The Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

2. Whom did Kennedy ask to be Secretary of State instead of Adlai Stevenson?
(a) Chester Bowles.
(b) McGeorge Bundy.
(c) Dean Rusk.
(d) Robert McNamara.

3. How did McNamara achieve his goals while he was at Ford?
(a) He got his people to compete against each other.
(b) He inspired his underlings with rhetoric.
(c) He used a bonus system.
(d) He intimidated his inferiors.

4. What made McGeorge Bundy an effective administrator?
(a) He could sense what others were thinking and what they needed.
(b) He had a rigid sense of principle.
(c) He listened to others and used their ideas.
(d) He did not brook opposition.

5. How did Kennedy's followers feel about Chester Bowles' ideas?
(a) They were antithetical to them.
(b) They were looking for ways to follow them.
(c) They were inspired by them.
(d) They did not appreciate them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Maxwell Taylor begin to support as a result of his late 1964 trip to Vietnam?

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

3. What does Halberstam say conditions were like in South Vietnam by the end of 1964?

4. What does Halberstam say happened when control shifted out of Taylor's hands in March and April 1965?

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

(see the answer key)

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