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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 was Kennedy's position on the Cold War policies of his predecessors?
(a) He did not want to follow them.
(b) He was going to improve on them.
(c) He was going to end them.
(d) He was going to continue them.

2. Whose input did the French and Americans ignore about Vietnam, in Halberstam's account?
(a) Generals.
(b) Diplomats.
(c) Lower-level officers.
(d) Military advisers.

3. Which problem did NOT arise for the Kennedy administration during 1961?
(a) Escalation of problems in Laos.
(b) Financial crisis.
(c) Bay of Pigs invasion.
(d) Arms race.

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

5. What was Kennedy's relationship with the press during his presidential campaign?
(a) He had to quash a few stories that were critical to his campaign.
(b) He had a number of hostile enemies in the press.
(c) He had a contentious relationship with the press.
(d) He had the support of most of the press.

Short Answer Questions

1. What issue had Kennedy and Dean Rusk had to discuss when Dean Rusk was offered the Secretary of State job?

2. What does Halberstam say was the result of the Chinese Revolution and the McCarthy period?

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

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

5. Whom did Kennedy want to act as Secretary of State?

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