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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 a Republican and too young.
(b) Bundy did not have the support of the Jews.
(c) Bundy was too old and conservative.
(d) Bundy had a reputation for saying damaging things off the cuff.

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

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

4. How did Kennedy see Adlai Stevenson?
(a) He saw Adlai Stevenson as an ideologue.
(b) He saw Adlai Stevenson as indecisive.
(c) He saw Adlai Stevenson as lazy.
(d) He saw Adlai Stevenson as principled.

5. What did Robert Lovett remember about Kennedy after the assassination?
(a) Kennedy's kindness and consideration.
(b) Kennedy's romantic ideology.
(c) Kennedy's weakness in the face of challenges.
(d) Kennedy's youth and inexperience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Eleanor Roosevelt's feelings about Kennedy?

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

3. What did Chester Bowles think was the most important issue to confront?

4. What does Halberstam say was the sense in the Kennedy administration as they came into office?

5. What did Robert Lovett represent for Kennedy?

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