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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What issue had Kennedy and Dean Rusk had to discuss when Dean Rusk was offered the Secretary of State job?
(a) Personal morality.
(b) Rusk's Judaism.
(c) Finances.
(d) Family values.

3. What does Halberstam say was the conclusion of the study that analyzed the results of a bombing attack against the north?
(a) The report concluded that bombing would break the Vietcong's supply routes, and end resistance.
(b) The report concluded that bombing would strengthen the North by building opposition to the Americans.
(c) The report concluded that bombing would overwhelm the people, and drain support for further attacks.
(d) The report concluded that bombing would deter any further guerilla-style attacks against the South.

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

5. What does Halberstam say was Lyndon Johnson's feeling about the coup?
(a) He turned a blind eye to it.
(b) He endorsed it.
(c) He proposed it.
(d) He opposed it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Halberstam say Lyndon Johnson felt in the Kennedy administration?

2. Where does Halberstam say McNamara found people to work under him as Secretary of Defense?

3. When did Kennedy first send advisers to Vietnam?

4. What movement regarding the war does Halberstam say started at the University of California in Berkeley?

5. Whose input did the French and Americans ignore about Vietnam, in Halberstam's account?

(see the answer key)

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