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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom did Kennedy want to act as Secretary of State?
(a) He was going to abolish the position of Secretary of State.
(b) Adlai Stevenson.
(c) Chester Bowles.
(d) He was going to act as his own Secretary of State.

2. Why hadn't Roosevelt stopped the French from returning to Indochina after the war, in Halberstam's account?
(a) He needed France for its support of American monetary policy.
(b) He did not have the authority to.
(c) There was no post-war plan to prevent them.
(d) He could not get a censure from the United Nations.

3. What did Robert Lovett remember about Kennedy after the assassination?
(a) Kennedy's weakness in the face of challenges.
(b) Kennedy's youth and inexperience.
(c) Kennedy's romantic ideology.
(d) Kennedy's kindness and consideration.

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

5. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to J. William Fulbright?
(a) Fublright was too young and inexperienced.
(b) Fulbright did not have the support of Negroes or Jews.
(c) Fulbright was too old and conservative.
(d) Fulbright had some unresolved scandals in his past.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Robert Lovett recommend to Kennedy for Secretary of Defense?

2. Where did the first confrontation take place in Indochina?

3. How does Halberstam say Dean Rusk felt in the Kennedy administration?

4. How long had Ho Chi Minh's communism associations been known to the U.S., in Halberstam's account?

5. How many soldiers had the U.S. sent to Vietnam in its first commitment of troops?

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