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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Robert Lovett represent for Kennedy?
(a) A connection with the opposition.
(b) A link to previous administrations.
(c) A bright new talent.
(d) A brilliant theoretical thinker.

2. Whom did Kennedy want to act as Secretary of State?
(a) Chester Bowles.
(b) He was going to act as his own Secretary of State.
(c) He was going to abolish the position of Secretary of State.
(d) Adlai Stevenson.

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

4. What did Chester Bowles think was the most important issue to confront?
(a) Military expansion.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Budget cuts.
(d) Race issues.

5. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to David Bruce?
(a) Bruce was felt to be too old.
(b) Bruce was felt to be too young.
(c) Bruce was felt to be too conservative.
(d) Bruce was felt to be too academic.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kennedy become well known in Washington?

2. Where does the book open?

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

4. What was Kennedy in the process of doing at the beginning of the book?

5. What did Robert Lovett remember about Kennedy after the assassination?

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