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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Robert Lovett demur about being appointed in the Kennedy administration?
(a) He did not like Kennedy.
(b) He had health problems.
(c) He was in financial trouble.
(d) He was newly a father.

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

3. Whose theories had been used as the basis for expanded militarization in the late 1940s?
(a) McGeorge Bundy's.
(b) Chester Bowles'.
(c) George Kennan's.
(d) Robert McNamara's.

4. When did Kennedy become well known in Washington?
(a) In the 1960 campaign.
(b) In his race for Senate.
(c) During the Cuban Missile Crisis.
(d) When he first entered politics.

5. What were Eleanor Roosevelt's feelings about Kennedy?
(a) She did not entirely trust him.
(b) She admired his leadership.
(c) She distrusted his Catholicism.
(d) She resented his inexperience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Halberstam say Kennedy had done in response to the meeting with Russians in Vienna?

2. Which problem did NOT arise for the Kennedy administration during 1961?

3. What position did the Kennedy administration take with regard to nuclear disarmament?

4. Whom did Kennedy ask to be Secretary of State instead of Adlai Stevenson?

5. What did Chester Bowles think was the most important issue to confront?

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