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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn't Kennedy offer the position of Secretary of State to McGeorge Bundy?
(a) Bundy had a reputation for saying damaging things off the cuff.
(b) Bundy was a Republican and too young.
(c) Bundy was too old and conservative.
(d) Bundy did not have the support of the Jews.

2. What issue had Kennedy and Dean Rusk had to discuss when Dean Rusk was offered the Secretary of State job?
(a) Family values.
(b) Finances.
(c) Personal morality.
(d) Rusk's Judaism.

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

4. What made McGeorge Bundy an effective administrator?
(a) He listened to others and used their ideas.
(b) He had a rigid sense of principle.
(c) He did not brook opposition.
(d) He could sense what others were thinking and what they needed.

5. What did Kennedy represent to Eleanor Roosevelt's followers?
(a) Old guard.
(b) Businessmen.
(c) The new breed.
(d) Foreigners.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Halberstam say Lyndon Johnson felt in the Kennedy administration?

3. What position did the Kennedy administration take with regard to nuclear disarmament?

4. What rule does Halberstam say Kennedy was following in trying to appoint a Secretary of State?

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

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