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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kennedy represent to Eleanor Roosevelt's followers?
(a) Old guard.
(b) Businessmen.
(c) Foreigners.
(d) The new breed.

2. When did the problem with the Buddhist monks begin?
(a) March 1961.
(b) November 1962.
(c) April 1962.
(d) May 1963.

3. How did Kennedy see Adlai Stevenson?
(a) He saw Adlai Stevenson as lazy.
(b) He saw Adlai Stevenson as an ideologue.
(c) He saw Adlai Stevenson as principled.
(d) He saw Adlai Stevenson as indecisive.

4. When did Kennedy first send advisers to Vietnam?
(a) February 1962.
(b) October 1961.
(c) June 1963.
(d) May 1962.

5. What did Robert Lovett remember about Kennedy after the assassination?
(a) Kennedy's weakness in the face of challenges.
(b) Kennedy's romantic ideology.
(c) Kennedy's youth and inexperience.
(d) Kennedy's kindness and consideration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position had Robert Lovett been appointed to in 1947?

2. Which problem did NOT arise for the Kennedy administration during 1961?

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

4. Where was the war going well, at the time when the White House was losing faith in Diem, according to Halberstam?

5. Whom had Eleanor Roosevelt wanted Kennedy to appoint as Secretary of State?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why didn't the U.S. gain the loyalty of the Vietnamese peasants?

2. What three plans does Halberstam say the U.S. was considering in Vietnam in 1961?

3. Who was Robert McNamara and what was his role in the formation of Vietnam policy?

4. What was the Kennedy administration's stance with regard to Russia?

5. Describe the confrontation in Laos.

6. Who was Kennedy, and how did he become well known?

7. How did the fall of China and the Cold War affect the Kennedy administration?

8. Why did Diem and the U.S. end up working together?

9. Why does Halberstam say Chester Bowles' popularity faded?

10. Who was Dean Rusk, and what was his role and place in the Kennedy administration?

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