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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose input did the French and Americans ignore about Vietnam, in Halberstam's account?
(a) Military advisers.
(b) Diplomats.
(c) Lower-level officers.
(d) Generals.

2. Who was named commander of American forces in Vietnam in June 1964?
(a) General William C. Westmoreland.
(b) General Harkins.
(c) Averell Harriman.
(d) Maxwell Taylor.

3. What did the code 34A stand for in the White House?
(a) The covert actions that responded to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
(b) Diplomacy to end the war.
(c) Search and destroy missions.
(d) The plan to bomb North Vietnam.

4. What movement regarding the war does Halberstam say started at the University of California in Berkeley?
(a) The Civil Rights movement.
(b) The peace movement.
(c) The Free Speech Movement.
(d) The balanced budget movement.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Halberstam say the Kennedy administration found out after the coup?

2. Where does the book open?

3. When did Kennedy become well known in Washington?

4. What issue did Joseph McCarthy use to energize voters?

5. Why did the Americans back down on demands for reform in Vietnam in 1962, in Halberstam's account?

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