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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did the Kennedy administration see the war in Vietnam?
(a) As a diversion from domestic problems.
(b) As a boon to the military contractors.
(c) As a gift to Asian allies.
(d) As a war against Communism.

3. Why hadn't Roosevelt stopped the French from returning to Indochina after the war, in Halberstam's account?
(a) He did not have the authority to.
(b) There was no post-war plan to prevent them.
(c) He could not get a censure from the United Nations.
(d) He needed France for its support of American monetary policy.

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

5. What position had Robert Lovett been appointed to in 1947?
(a) Secretary of State.
(b) Secretary of the Interior.
(c) Secretary of Defense.
(d) Undersecretary of State.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the book open?

2. Why did Robert Lovett demur about being appointed in the Kennedy administration?

3. Which situation had the biggest effect on the Kennedy administration in 1961?

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

5. How big a margin did Kennedy win the presidency by?

(see the answer key)

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