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

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 seen that the Cuban people were not opposed to Castro.
(c) They had underestimated the logistical difficulties of a landing.
(d) They had not checked the weather for the invasion.

3. When did Kennedy first send advisers to Vietnam?
(a) May 1962.
(b) February 1962.
(c) June 1963.
(d) October 1961.

4. How does Halberstam say Dean Rusk felt in the Kennedy administration?
(a) He always felt like an outsider.
(b) He felt like the spokesman of the party.
(c) He felt like a new kid without enough respect.
(d) He felt like the smartest of the bunch.

5. What were Eleanor Roosevelt's feelings about Kennedy?
(a) She did not entirely trust him.
(b) She resented his inexperience.
(c) She distrusted his Catholicism.
(d) She admired his leadership.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which situation had the biggest effect on the Kennedy administration in 1961?

2. Whom did Robert Lovett recommend to Kennedy for Secretary of State?

3. Who was Kennedy's military analyst on the 1961 fact-finding mission?

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

5. Why hadn't Roosevelt stopped the French from returning to Indochina after the war, in Halberstam's account?

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