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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to McGeorge Bundy?
(a) Bundy was too old and conservative.
(b) Bundy did not have the support of the Jews.
(c) Bundy had a reputation for saying damaging things off the cuff.
(d) Bundy was a Republican and too young.

2. What family was McGeorge Bundy descended from?
(a) The Rockefellers.
(b) The New York Blisses.
(c) The Roosevelts.
(d) The New England Lowells.

3. Why did Robert Lovett demur about being appointed in the Kennedy administration?
(a) He did not like Kennedy.
(b) He was newly a father.
(c) He had health problems.
(d) He was in financial trouble.

4. What does Halberstam say was the sense in the Kennedy administration as they came into office?
(a) They were going to institute a new era of peace.
(b) They were going to continue the country's prosperity.
(c) They were going to get the country moving again.
(d) They were going to conquer the Russians.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Whom did Kennedy ask to be Secretary of State instead of Adlai Stevenson?

4. What did Kennedy represent to Eleanor Roosevelt's followers?

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

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