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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Halberstam say Dean Rusk felt about his interview with Kennedy for the Secretary of State job?
(a) Not well.
(b) He did not know whether he could serve under Kennedy.
(c) He felt he had not been articulate enough.
(d) Superbly.

2. Which cabinet member was opposed to the Bay of Pigs invasion?
(a) McGeorge Bundy.
(b) Dean Rusk.
(c) Robert McNamara.
(d) Chester Bowles.

3. 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 was going to end them.
(d) He did not want to follow them.

4. What issue did Joseph McCarthy use to energize voters?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Arms reduction.
(c) Communism conspiracies.
(d) Tax cuts.

5. What does Halberstam say Americans were united about in the early 1960s?
(a) The need to fight Communism.
(b) The need to balance the budget.
(c) The need to establish military supremacy.
(d) The need to grant civil rights.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What state does Halberstam say the Vietcong were in when Kennedy sent the fact-finding mission in 1961?

4. Which issue was NOT confronting the nation when the Kennedy administration took office?

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

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