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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) Budget cuts.
(b) Military expansion.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Race issues.

2. Who was Kennedy's military analyst on the 1961 fact-finding mission?
(a) Chester Bowles.
(b) Robert McNamara.
(c) Maxwell Taylor.
(d) McGeorge Bundy.

3. When Kennedy did not authorize more troops, what does Halberstam say he told the Pentagon?
(a) To develop an exit strategy.
(b) To prepare a larger engagement.
(c) To develop plans to expand the war to Cambodia.
(d) To plan to redeploy combat troops.

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

5. What does Halberstam say was Robert McNamara's role in the White House policy discussions?
(a) McNamara dominated discussions.
(b) McNamara followed the will of the other advisers.
(c) McNamara enforced Kennedy's will.
(d) McNamara filled in the details of others' plans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Halberstam say McNamara had done while he was at Ford?

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

3. What family was McGeorge Bundy descended from?

4. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to David Bruce?

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

(see the answer key)

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