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

2. What had McNamara done by the time he took over as Secretary of Defense?
(a) Studied and identified the problems at the Pentagon.
(b) Instituted successful reforms at Ford.
(c) Reviewed American foreign policy.
(d) Consulted with Kennedy about his goals and methods.

3. 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.

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

5. In what way does Halberstam say that Lyndon Johnson resembled Kennedy in his management style?
(a) Johnson used a cabinet of enemies.
(b) Johnson trusted the military's reports.
(c) Johnson did not seek a wide variety of opinions.
(d) Johnson sought out expert opinions beyond his cabinet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't Kennedy formulate a China policy, in Halberstam's account?

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

3. What did Johnson say he needed before they could move against the North?

4. What were Diem and Nhu's politics relative to the Vietnamese population's politics?

5. What problem does Halberstam say Maxwell Taylor had in Vietnam?

(see the answer key)

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