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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What family was McGeorge Bundy descended from?
(a) The New England Lowells.
(b) The New York Blisses.
(c) The Rockefellers.
(d) The Roosevelts.

2. What policy did Rostow support in Vietnam?
(a) An aggressive anti-Communist policy.
(b) Battleship diplomacy.
(c) A policy of rapprochement.
(d) An appeasement policy.

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. Whose theories had been used as the basis for expanded militarization in the late 1940s?
(a) McGeorge Bundy's.
(b) George Kennan's.
(c) Robert McNamara's.
(d) Chester Bowles'.

5. How did Kennedy's followers feel about Chester Bowles' ideas?
(a) They did not appreciate them.
(b) They were antithetical to them.
(c) They were looking for ways to follow them.
(d) They were inspired by them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long had Ho Chi Minh's communism associations been known to the U.S., in Halberstam's account?

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

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

5. What does Halberstam say was the problem with the Kennedy administration's pragmatism?

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