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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which situation had the biggest effect on the Kennedy administration in 1961?
(a) The financial crisis.
(b) China policy.
(c) The Gulf of Tonkin incident.
(d) The Bay of Pigs.

3. Why didn't Kennedy formulate a China policy, in Halberstam's account?
(a) China was not a high priority.
(b) He didn't have time.
(c) His China advisor had not been confirmed.
(d) China was experiencing a revolution.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to McGeorge Bundy?

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

4. What does Halberstam say was the result of the Chinese Revolution and the McCarthy period?

5. What does Halberstam say Americans were united about in the early 1960s?

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