View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Halberstam say Lyndon Johnson felt in the Kennedy administration?
(a) He felt like a socialist among capitalists.
(b) He felt like a midwesterner among East-coast men.
(c) He felt like a relic of previous administrations.
(d) He felt like a teacher among his students.

2. What did the Kennedy administration represent to America?
(a) Elitism and a new American nationalism.
(b) Culture and American cosmopolitanism.
(c) Wealth and American individualism.
(d) Catholicism and American sectionalism.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What rule does Halberstam say Kennedy was following in trying to appoint a Secretary of State?

2. What had Robert Lovett been before entering government?

3. How did Kennedy see Adlai Stevenson?

4. When did Kennedy become well known in Washington?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 335 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample