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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Chester Bowles think was the most important issue to confront?
(a) Race issues.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Military expansion.
(d) Budget cuts.

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

3. What position had Robert Lovett been appointed to in 1947?
(a) Secretary of State.
(b) Secretary of the Interior.
(c) Undersecretary of State.
(d) Secretary of Defense.

4. What did the Kennedy administration represent to America?
(a) Culture and American cosmopolitanism.
(b) Elitism and a new American nationalism.
(c) Catholicism and American sectionalism.
(d) Wealth and American individualism.

5. What were Diem and Nhu's politics relative to the Vietnamese population's politics?
(a) Diem and Nhu were more monarchical than Vietnamese typically were.
(b) Diem and Nhu relied on the military to enforce their political will.
(c) Diem and Nhu favored market capitalism more than the people did.
(d) Diem and Nhu were more communist than the people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Kennedy in the process of doing at the beginning of the book?

2. What does Halberstam say was Robert McNamara's role in the White House policy discussions?

3. What family was McGeorge Bundy descended from?

4. When did Kennedy first send advisers to Vietnam?

5. What rule does Halberstam say Kennedy was following in trying to appoint a Secretary of State?

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