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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How big a margin did Kennedy win the presidency by?
(a) 1.5 million votes.
(b) 100,000 votes.
(c) 500,000 votes.
(d) 1,000,000 votes.

2. What does Halberstam say Americans were united about in the early 1960s?
(a) The need to establish military supremacy.
(b) The need to balance the budget.
(c) The need to fight Communism.
(d) The need to grant civil rights.

3. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to McGeorge Bundy?
(a) Bundy was too old and conservative.
(b) Bundy had a reputation for saying damaging things off the cuff.
(c) Bundy did not have the support of the Jews.
(d) Bundy was a Republican and too young.

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

5. Why did Robert Lovett demur about being appointed in the Kennedy administration?
(a) He was newly a father.
(b) He was in financial trouble.
(c) He had health problems.
(d) He did not like Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state does Halberstam say the Vietcong were in when Kennedy sent the fact-finding mission in 1961?

2. What made McGeorge Bundy an effective administrator?

3. Whose theories had been used as the basis for expanded militarization in the late 1940s?

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

5. What policies had Robert Lovett been involved in crafting?

(see the answer key)

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