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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Johnson say he needed before they could move against the North?
(a) Bipartisan support.
(b) A stable government in the South.
(c) Success in the Mekong delta.
(d) Success around Saigon.

2. Why does Halberstam say Harkins had a hard time firing one of his people in the Mekong Delta?
(a) He was discouraged from using his authority.
(b) He was told that everything was under control there.
(c) He was told that there would be too many repercussions.
(d) He knew the person needing to be fired personally.

3. How many soldiers had the U.S. sent to Vietnam in its first commitment of troops?
(a) 8 military advisers.
(b) 100,000 troops.
(c) 20,000 troops.
(d) 400 Special forces and 3,000 troops.

4. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to McGeorge Bundy?
(a) Bundy was a Republican and too young.
(b) Bundy was too old and conservative.
(c) Bundy did not have the support of the Jews.
(d) Bundy had a reputation for saying damaging things off the cuff.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these was NOT a point of disagreement between the White House and the military, in Halberstam's account?

2. What committee had Kennedy served on in the Senate?

3. What rule does Halberstam say Kennedy was following in trying to appoint a Secretary of State?

4. When did Khanh overthrow the generals in Vietnam?

5. Whose theories had been used as the basis for expanded militarization in the late 1940s?

(see the answer key)

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