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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) Chester Bowles.
(b) Dean Rusk.
(c) McGeorge Bundy.
(d) Robert McNamara.

2. What does Halberstam say Kennedy had done in response to the meeting with Russians in Vienna?
(a) He reduced America's nuclear arsenal.
(b) He removed troops from Poland.
(c) He increased troop strength in Berlin.
(d) He sent an advisory committee to Vietnam.

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

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

5. What mistake had the Kennedy administration made in the Bay of Pigs invasion?
(a) They had underestimated the logistical difficulties of a landing.
(b) They had not supplied enough men and material.
(c) They had not seen that the Cuban people were not opposed to Castro.
(d) They had not checked the weather for the invasion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which problem did NOT arise for the Kennedy administration during 1961?

2. What does Halberstam say Americans were disunited about in the early 1960s?

3. Why hadn't Roosevelt stopped the French from returning to Indochina after the war, in Halberstam's account?

4. What issue did Joseph McCarthy use to energize voters?

5. What did Kennedy ask Chester Bowles for advice on?

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