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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 Robert Lovett remember about Kennedy after the assassination?
(a) Kennedy's weakness in the face of challenges.
(b) Kennedy's youth and inexperience.
(c) Kennedy's kindness and consideration.
(d) Kennedy's romantic ideology.

2. 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.

3. What plan was the U.S. government following by the end of 1964?
(a) Limit bombing but increase troops on the ground.
(b) Pour as many resources as necessary into Vietnam.
(c) Expand the pacification program.
(d) Restrict operations to bombing missions.

4. What does Halberstam say was the sense in the Kennedy administration as they came into office?
(a) They were going to get the country moving again.
(b) They were going to institute a new era of peace.
(c) They were going to conquer the Russians.
(d) They were going to continue the country's prosperity.

5. Who was Kennedy's military analyst on the 1961 fact-finding mission?
(a) Maxwell Taylor.
(b) McGeorge Bundy.
(c) Chester Bowles.
(d) Robert McNamara.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the book open?

3. What does Halberstam say happened that strained the relationship between Diem and the Buddhists?

4. How did McNamara's position on bombing change over time?

5. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to J. William Fulbright?

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