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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rule does Halberstam say Kennedy was following in trying to appoint a Secretary of State?
(a) Someone who had a strong intuition.
(b) Someone who had not made many mistakes or offended too many people.
(c) Someone who had learned from his mistakes and had diplomatic experience.
(d) Someone who didn't look back at bad decisions, but plowed ahead.

2. What had Robert Lovett been before entering government?
(a) An investment banker.
(b) A career military officer.
(c) An automobile executive.
(d) An insurance salesman.

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

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

5. How did Kennedy see Adlai Stevenson?
(a) He saw Adlai Stevenson as lazy.
(b) He saw Adlai Stevenson as an ideologue.
(c) He saw Adlai Stevenson as indecisive.
(d) He saw Adlai Stevenson as principled.

Short Answer Questions

1. What policies had Robert Lovett been involved in crafting?

2. What did Kennedy represent to Eleanor Roosevelt's followers?

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

4. What made McGeorge Bundy an effective administrator?

5. What position had Robert Lovett been appointed to in 1947?

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