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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 did Kennedy represent to Eleanor Roosevelt's followers?
(a) Foreigners.
(b) The new breed.
(c) Old guard.
(d) Businessmen.

2. How many troops were in Vietnam when Kennedy was assassinated?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 200,000.

3. When did McNamara say the U.S. would be out of Vietnam, when he visited the country?
(a) By the end of 1968.
(b) By the beginning of 1966.
(c) By 1970.
(d) By the end of 1965.

4. Who tipped off Senator Wayne Morse about the real situation of the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
(a) General Westmoreland.
(b) McGeorge Bundy.
(c) An anonymous caller.
(d) President Johnson.

5. Who does Halberstam say set the tone for Vietnam policy for the beginning of the Johnson administration?
(a) McNamara.
(b) Harriman.
(c) Rusk.
(d) Bundy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Geneva Convention decide in Vietnam?

2. What was Kennedy's position on the Cold War policies of his predecessors?

3. What state does Halberstam say the Vietcong were in when Kennedy sent the fact-finding mission in 1961?

4. How did Kennedy's followers feel about Chester Bowles' ideas?

5. Why did Robert Lovett demur about being appointed in the Kennedy administration?

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