The Best and the Brightest Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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The Best and the Brightest Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom did Kennedy ask to be Secretary of State instead of Adlai Stevenson?
(a) Chester Bowles.
(b) Dean Rusk.
(c) McGeorge Bundy.
(d) Robert McNamara.

2. How many troops were in Vietnam when Kennedy was assassinated?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 200,000.

3. What does Halberstam say was the effect of the Gulf of Tonkin incident on the U.S. government?
(a) It demonstrated that American strategy was working.
(b) It strengthened U.S. resolve to win in Vietnam.
(c) It led some to question the legality of the war.
(d) It convinced Americans that the war was senseless.

4. What was Kennedy in the process of doing at the beginning of the book?
(a) Campaigning for president.
(b) Assembling an administration.
(c) Winning the election for president.
(d) Serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

5. What events does Halberstam say affected American perceptions of its global priorities?
(a) The agitation of labor unions in America and Europe.
(b) The revolution in Cuba.
(c) The escalation of the Cold War and the fall of China.
(d) The tension over civil rights in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did President Johnson authorize bombing attacks on North Vietnam, in Halberstam's account?

2. How did the Kennedy administration see the war in Vietnam?

3. When Kennedy did not authorize more troops, what does Halberstam say he told the Pentagon?

4. How did McNamara achieve his goals while he was at Ford?

5. Where does the book open?

(see the answer key)

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