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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 does Halberstam say Americans were disunited about in the early 1960s?
(a) How to go about fighting Communism.
(b) How to establish peace.
(c) How to balance the budget.
(d) How to reduce nuclear weapons.

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

3. How does Halberstam say Kennedy was feeling about the war at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Frustrated.
(b) Dispirited.
(c) Optimistic.
(d) Enthusiastic.

4. 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 favored market capitalism more than the people did.
(c) Diem and Nhu relied on the military to enforce their political will.
(d) Diem and Nhu were more communist than the people.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what way does Halberstam say that Lyndon Johnson resembled Kennedy in his management style?

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

4. What issue had Kennedy and Dean Rusk had to discuss when Dean Rusk was offered the Secretary of State job?

5. Which problem did NOT arise for the Kennedy administration during 1961?

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