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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 hadn't Roosevelt stopped the French from returning to Indochina after the war, in Halberstam's account?
(a) There was no post-war plan to prevent them.
(b) He did not have the authority to.
(c) He needed France for its support of American monetary policy.
(d) He could not get a censure from the United Nations.

2. Which issue was NOT confronting the nation when the Kennedy administration took office?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) China policy.
(c) Reconstruction.
(d) Missiles.

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 young.
(c) Bruce was felt to be too academic.
(d) Bruce was felt to be too old.

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

5. Whom did Kennedy want to act as Secretary of State?
(a) He was going to act as his own Secretary of State.
(b) He was going to abolish the position of Secretary of State.
(c) Adlai Stevenson.
(d) Chester Bowles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Geneva Convention decide in Vietnam?

2. How long had Ho Chi Minh's communism associations been known to the U.S., in Halberstam's account?

3. Whom did Robert Lovett recommend to Kennedy for Secretary of State?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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