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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 family was McGeorge Bundy descended from?
(a) The Rockefellers.
(b) The New England Lowells.
(c) The New York Blisses.
(d) The Roosevelts.

2. What committee had Kennedy served on in the Senate?
(a) Judiciary Committee.
(b) Banking and Finance Committee.
(c) Military Affairs Committee.
(d) Foreign Relations Committee.

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

4. Whom did Kennedy ask to be Secretary of State instead of Adlai Stevenson?
(a) Chester Bowles.
(b) McGeorge Bundy.
(c) Dean Rusk.
(d) Robert McNamara.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did the Kennedy administration take with regard to nuclear disarmament?

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

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

4. What did Chester Bowles think was the most important issue to confront?

5. What does Halberstam say was the problem with the Kennedy administration's pragmatism?

(see the answer key)

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