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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Halberstam say was the problem with the Kennedy administration's pragmatism?
(a) It was not backed with muscular diplomacy.
(b) It was grounded in academic theory.
(c) There were too many crises at once.
(d) It did not have real-world experience.

3. What position did the Kennedy administration take with regard to nuclear disarmament?
(a) Kennedy wanted to make sure that the U.S. and Russia had comparable arsenals.
(b) Kennedy wanted to eliminate nuclear weapons altogether.
(c) Kennedy wanted to show Kruschev that he was tough.
(d) Kennedy wanted to reduce the number of nuclear weapons to a reasonable number.

4. What issue did Joseph McCarthy use to energize voters?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Arms reduction.
(c) Communism conspiracies.
(d) Tax cuts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't Kennedy formulate a China policy, in Halberstam's account?

2. Where did the first confrontation take place in Indochina?

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

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

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

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