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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

4. How did the Kennedy administration see the war in Vietnam?
(a) As a war against Communism.
(b) As a boon to the military contractors.
(c) As a gift to Asian allies.
(d) As a diversion from domestic problems.

5. What was Kennedy in the process of doing at the beginning of the book?
(a) Assembling an administration.
(b) Winning the election for president.
(c) Campaigning for president.
(d) Serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Kennedy's followers feel about Chester Bowles' ideas?

2. Whose theories had been used as the basis for expanded militarization in the late 1940s?

3. Whose input did the French and Americans ignore about Vietnam, in Halberstam's account?

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

5. Which issue was NOT confronting the nation when the Kennedy administration took office?

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