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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What issue did Joseph McCarthy use to energize voters?
(a) Tax cuts.
(b) Arms reduction.
(c) Communism conspiracies.
(d) Civil rights.

2. What were Diem and Nhu's politics relative to the Vietnamese population's politics?
(a) Diem and Nhu were more communist than the people.
(b) Diem and Nhu favored market capitalism more than the people did.
(c) Diem and Nhu were more monarchical than Vietnamese typically were.
(d) Diem and Nhu relied on the military to enforce their political will.

3. How does Halberstam say Lyndon Johnson felt in the Kennedy administration?
(a) He felt like a socialist among capitalists.
(b) He felt like a teacher among his students.
(c) He felt like a midwesterner among East-coast men.
(d) He felt like a relic of previous administrations.

4. What was Kennedy's position on the Cold War policies of his predecessors?
(a) He was going to improve on them.
(b) He did not want to follow them.
(c) He was going to continue them.
(d) He was going to end them.

5. What measures does Halberstam say Washington, D.C. took when the soldiers dissented over conditions?
(a) They repressed the dissent.
(b) They arrested any soldiers who spoke against the government.
(c) They held town hall meeting where soldiers could air their views.
(d) They held Congressional hearings.

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

7. What does Halberstam say was the result of the Thanksgiving Day Massacre?
(a) Averell Harriman was named Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs.
(b) Troops were withdrawn from the Mekong Delta.
(c) Maxwell Taylor was removed from his position.
(d) Kennedy increased the number of troops in Vietnam.

8. Where was the war going badly, at the time when the White House was losing faith in Diem?
(a) In Quang Nam.
(b) In Pleiku.
(c) In the Mekong Delta.
(d) Around Saigon.

9. What did the Geneva Convention decide in Vietnam?
(a) It determined how prisoners of war would be exchanged.
(b) It established a procedure for holding elections.
(c) It sanctioned the north for its attacks on the south.
(d) It divided the country in two, a north and a south.

10. Which situation had the biggest effect on the Kennedy administration in 1961?
(a) China policy.
(b) The Bay of Pigs.
(c) The Gulf of Tonkin incident.
(d) The financial crisis.

11. When did the problem with the Buddhist monks begin?
(a) March 1961.
(b) May 1963.
(c) November 1962.
(d) April 1962.

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

13. What committee had Kennedy served on in the Senate?
(a) Judiciary Committee.
(b) Military Affairs Committee.
(c) Banking and Finance Committee.
(d) Foreign Relations Committee.

14. How long had Ho Chi Minh's communism associations been known to the U.S., in Halberstam's account?
(a) Since 1946.
(b) Since 1954.
(c) Since 1931.
(d) Since 1941.

15. What does Halberstam say happened that strained the relationship between Diem and the Buddhists?
(a) The government raided the pagodas and blamed it on the army.
(b) The government seized land and temples from the Buddhists.
(c) The Buddhists martyred themselves in opposition to the government.
(d) The Buddhists instigated confrontations with the army.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Halberstam say was the result of the Chinese Revolution and the McCarthy period?

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

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

4. How big a margin did Kennedy win the presidency by?

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

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