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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What policies had Robert Lovett been involved in crafting?
(a) The Marshall plan.
(b) Changes to Medicare.
(c) A reorganization of the military.
(d) Treaties with China and Russia.

2. How does Halberstam say Dean Rusk felt about his interview with Kennedy for the Secretary of State job?
(a) He did not know whether he could serve under Kennedy.
(b) Not well.
(c) He felt he had not been articulate enough.
(d) Superbly.

3. What did the Kennedy administration represent to America?
(a) Elitism and a new American nationalism.
(b) Wealth and American individualism.
(c) Culture and American cosmopolitanism.
(d) Catholicism and American sectionalism.

4. When did Kennedy become well known in Washington?
(a) During the Cuban Missile Crisis.
(b) In his race for Senate.
(c) In the 1960 campaign.
(d) When he first entered politics.

5. What had Robert Lovett been before entering government?
(a) A career military officer.
(b) An automobile executive.
(c) An investment banker.
(d) An insurance salesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the book open?

2. What was the recommendation that came out of the fact-finding mission of 1961?

3. What did the Geneva Convention decide in Vietnam?

4. Whom did Kennedy want to act as Secretary of State?

5. What family was McGeorge Bundy descended from?

(see the answer key)

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