View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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(b) Troops were withdrawn from the Mekong Delta.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.

2. How does Halberstam say Dean Rusk felt about his interview with Kennedy for the Secretary of State job?
(a) Not well.
(b) He felt he had not been articulate enough.
(c) Superbly.
(d) He did not know whether he could serve under Kennedy.

3. What does Halberstam say was Lyndon Johnson's feeling about the coup?
(a) He endorsed it.
(b) He proposed it.
(c) He opposed it.
(d) He turned a blind eye to it.

4. Who does Halberstam say remained loyal to Diem when the coup began?
(a) The southern part of the country.
(b) The Palace Guard.
(c) The people.
(d) The merchants.

5. What family was McGeorge Bundy descended from?
(a) The Rockefellers.
(b) The New England Lowells.
(c) The New York Blisses.
(d) The Roosevelts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Kennedy's military analyst on the 1961 fact-finding mission?

2. When did the problem with the Buddhist monks begin?

3. What events does Halberstam say affected American perceptions of its global priorities?

4. What did the Kennedy administration represent to America?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 278 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample