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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 did Kennedy ask Chester Bowles for advice on?
(a) Campaigning.
(b) Foreign policy.
(c) Military analysis.
(d) Budget cuts.

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

3. What was the recommendation that came out of the fact-finding mission of 1961?
(a) That the U.S. commit military advisers.
(b) That the U.S. commit 20,000 troops.
(c) That the U.S. send 8,000 troops.
(d) That the U.S. send 100,000 troops.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What position had Robert Lovett been appointed to in 1947?

2. Whom had Eleanor Roosevelt wanted Kennedy to appoint as Secretary of State?

3. How does Halberstam say Dean Rusk felt about his interview with Kennedy for the Secretary of State job?

4. Why did the Americans back down on demands for reform in Vietnam in 1962, in Halberstam's account?

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

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