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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 34-35: Time of Troubles; Tribune of the Underclass.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who signed a limited test ban treaty in 1963?
(a) Cuba and Vietnam.
(b) Cuba and the Soviet Union.
(c) United States and Vietnam.
(d) United States and the Soviet Union.

2. Which institution opposed the changes happening in the Justice Department?
(a) Security Council.
(b) Pentagon.
(c) CIA.
(d) FBI.

3. What did Robert Kennedy call the shame of poverty?
(a) That poor people had no clothes to wear.
(b) That poverty created abuse.
(c) That poverty created illiteracy.
(d) That the wealthiest nation could tolerate such conditions for its poor.

4. What operation launched by the CIA in Cuba also met with disastrous results?
(a) Operation Mongoose.
(b) Bay of Pigs.
(c) Fidel Capture.
(d) Khruschev Initiative.

5. After riots in 1967, where did President Johnson's focus shift?
(a) Economy.
(b) Internal security and crime control.
(c) Housing.
(d) Civil rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Robert Kennedy vehemently oppose as it escalated by 1967?

2. What was a major area of contention between Hoover and Robert Kennedy?

3. What did Robert Kennedy try to do to help the poor in America?

4. Who moved in a direction independent of the Soviet Union following the release of American prisoners in Cuba?

5. Which segment of the American population began to support Robert Kennedy's view of the war in 1967?

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