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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the report that came out of the fact-finding trip to Vietnam in early 1965 ultimately advocate?
(a) Troops on the ground.
(b) Reprisals against the Vietcong.
(c) Bombing.
(d) Diplomatic efforts.

3. Who does Halberstam say eventually took on the role of setting the tone for Vietnam policy?
(a) Harriman.
(b) Taylor.
(c) Bundy.
(d) Rusk.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Kennedy administration see the war in Vietnam?

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

3. What had USAID done in Vietnam at the beginning of Chapter 15?

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

5. What was Kennedy's position on the Cold War policies of his predecessors?

(see the answer key)

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