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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event does Halberstam say triggered bombing operations against the North?
(a) The Bay of Pigs invasion.
(b) The Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
(c) A North Vietnamese attack on American B-57 bombers.
(d) A North Vietnamese success in the Mekong Delta.

2. Where does the book open?
(a) Kennedy's Georgetown townhouse.
(b) Kennedy's family home in Massachusetts.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Washington, D.C.

3. Whom had Eleanor Roosevelt wanted Kennedy to appoint as Secretary of State?
(a) Chester Bowles.
(b) Adlai Stevenson.
(c) Dean Rusk.
(d) Robert McNamara.

4. What was Kennedy's relationship with the press during his presidential campaign?
(a) He had the support of most of the press.
(b) He had a contentious relationship with the press.
(c) He had a number of hostile enemies in the press.
(d) He had to quash a few stories that were critical to his campaign.

5. Who was in charge of the operation code named 34A?
(a) McGeorge Bundy.
(b) Averell Harriman.
(c) General Westmoreland.
(d) General Harkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in the Gulf of Tonkin as a part of 34A?

2. What did Hanoi do in response to U.S. war games in the South?

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

4. What plan was the U.S. government following by the end of 1964?

5. How does Halberstam say McNamara learned about the affairs in Vietnam?

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