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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Whom had Eleanor Roosevelt wanted Kennedy to appoint as Secretary of State?
(a) Robert McNamara.
(b) Chester Bowles.
(c) Adlai Stevenson.
(d) Dean Rusk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kennedy ask Chester Bowles for advice on?

2. What did the Kennedy administration represent to America?

3. What committee had Kennedy served on in the Senate?

4. How does Halberstam say Dean Rusk felt in the Kennedy administration?

5. What was Kennedy's position on the Cold War policies of his predecessors?

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