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

2. How did Kennedy's followers feel about Chester Bowles' ideas?
(a) They were antithetical to them.
(b) They were inspired by them.
(c) They were looking for ways to follow them.
(d) They did not appreciate them.

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

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

5. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to McGeorge Bundy?
(a) Bundy was too old and conservative.
(b) Bundy did not have the support of the Jews.
(c) Bundy had a reputation for saying damaging things off the cuff.
(d) Bundy was a Republican and too young.

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 did Kennedy represent to Eleanor Roosevelt's followers?

3. What was Kennedy's relationship with the press during his presidential campaign?

4. Which situation had the biggest effect on the Kennedy administration in 1961?

5. Where does the book open?

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