2. How does Halberstam say McNamara learned about the affairs in Vietnam?
(a) By conducting academic studies.
(b) By reading reports.
(c) By seeing for himself.
(d) By talking to people.

3. What kind of reports does Halberstam say would come from the head of the U.S. command after his 1962 appointment?
(a) Highly detailed reports.
(b) Reports that were imperial propaganda.
(c) Pragmatic and diplomatic reports.
(d) Unrealistic reports.

4. What did the Kennedy administration represent to America?
(a) Elitism and a new American nationalism.
(b) Wealth and American individualism.
(c) Culture and American cosmopolitanism.
(d) Catholicism and American sectionalism.

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

6. Whom did Robert Lovett recommend to Kennedy for Secretary of Defense?
(a) Dean Rusk.
(b) McGeorge Bundy.
(c) Robert McNamara.
(d) Chester Bowles.

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

8. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to J. William Fulbright?
(a) Fulbright was too old and conservative.
(b) Fublright was too young and inexperienced.
(c) Fulbright had some unresolved scandals in his past.
(d) Fulbright did not have the support of Negroes or Jews.

9. How big a margin did Kennedy win the presidency by?
(a) 500,000 votes.
(b) 1,000,000 votes.
(c) 1.5 million votes.
(d) 100,000 votes.

10. Which cabinet member was opposed to the Bay of Pigs invasion?
(a) Robert McNamara.
(b) Dean Rusk.
(c) Chester Bowles.
(d) McGeorge Bundy.

11. What does Halberstam say Americans were united about in the early 1960s?
(a) The need to fight Communism.
(b) The need to balance the budget.
(c) The need to establish military supremacy.
(d) The need to grant civil rights.

12. What state does Halberstam say the Vietcong were in when Kennedy sent the fact-finding mission in 1961?
(a) They had opposition in the civilian populace.
(b) They were using guerilla tactics ineffectively.
(c) They were committed and had good leadership.
(d) They were fragmented and plagued with in-fighting.

13. Where does the book open?
(a) Kennedy's Georgetown townhouse.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Kennedy's family home in Massachusetts.
(d) Vietnam.

14. What does Halberstam say McNamara learned that he had to do in order to argue against nuclear weapons?
(a) Discredit military analysts in favor of nuclear weapons.
(b) Make a good argument for conventional weapons.
(c) Demonize his opponents.
(d) Make emotional appeals to the electorate.

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