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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Halberstam say Dean Rusk felt about his interview with Kennedy for the Secretary of State job?
(a) Superbly.
(b) He did not know whether he could serve under Kennedy.
(c) He felt he had not been articulate enough.
(d) Not well.

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

4. What does Halberstam say Americans were disunited about in the early 1960s?
(a) How to establish peace.
(b) How to balance the budget.
(c) How to reduce nuclear weapons.
(d) How to go about fighting Communism.

5. Whom did Robert Lovett recommend to Kennedy for Secretary of State?
(a) Robert McNamara.
(b) McGeorge Bundy.
(c) Dean Rusk.
(d) Chester Bowles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why hadn't Roosevelt stopped the French from returning to Indochina after the war, in Halberstam's account?

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

3. What did Robert Lovett represent for Kennedy?

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

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

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