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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 does Halberstam say was the problem with the Kennedy administration's pragmatism?
(a) There were too many crises at once.
(b) It was grounded in academic theory.
(c) It was not backed with muscular diplomacy.
(d) It did not have real-world experience.

2. Why did the Americans back down on demands for reform in Vietnam in 1962, in Halberstam's account?
(a) They lost confidence that reforms could be implemented.
(b) Diem could not afford reforms.
(c) Diem had begun to renege on his promises.
(d) Reforms had already been accomplished.

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

4. What does Halberstam say was the sense in the Kennedy administration as they came into office?
(a) They were going to get the country moving again.
(b) They were going to continue the country's prosperity.
(c) They were going to conquer the Russians.
(d) They were going to institute a new era of peace.

5. What policy did Rostow support in Vietnam?
(a) An aggressive anti-Communist policy.
(b) Battleship diplomacy.
(c) An appeasement policy.
(d) A policy of rapprochement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mistake had the Kennedy administration made in the Bay of Pigs invasion?

2. What did Kennedy represent to Eleanor Roosevelt's followers?

3. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to J. William Fulbright?

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

5. Who was named to head the U.S. command in Saigon in January 1962?

(see the answer key)

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