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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What made McGeorge Bundy an effective administrator?
(a) He had a rigid sense of principle.
(b) He could sense what others were thinking and what they needed.
(c) He listened to others and used their ideas.
(d) He did not brook opposition.

4. How did Kennedy see Adlai Stevenson?
(a) He saw Adlai Stevenson as indecisive.
(b) He saw Adlai Stevenson as principled.
(c) He saw Adlai Stevenson as an ideologue.
(d) He saw Adlai Stevenson as lazy.

5. What does Halberstam say McNamara had done while he was at Ford?
(a) Busted a unionization attempt.
(b) Raised the quality of the product without raising the cost.
(c) Created a fiscal crisis.
(d) Innovated in the design of the production process.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Halberstam say was the result of the Thanksgiving Day Massacre?

2. What was Kennedy's position on the Cold War policies of his predecessors?

3. What policy did Rostow support in Vietnam?

4. What did Robert Lovett represent for Kennedy?

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

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