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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the book open?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Kennedy's family home in Massachusetts.
(c) Kennedy's Georgetown townhouse.
(d) Washington, D.C.

2. What issue had Kennedy and Dean Rusk had to discuss when Dean Rusk was offered the Secretary of State job?
(a) Finances.
(b) Rusk's Judaism.
(c) Personal morality.
(d) Family values.

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

4. Why didn't Kennedy formulate a China policy, in Halberstam's account?
(a) China was experiencing a revolution.
(b) China was not a high priority.
(c) His China advisor had not been confirmed.
(d) He didn't have time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Kennedy in the process of doing at the beginning of the book?

2. What were Eleanor Roosevelt's feelings about Kennedy?

3. What events does Halberstam say affected American perceptions of its global priorities?

4. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to McGeorge Bundy?

5. What committee had Kennedy served on in the Senate?

(see the answer key)

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