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

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

3. Who assisted in secret negotiations with Castro?
(a) John Donovan.
(b) Vladimir Putin.
(c) Mikhail Gorbachev.
(d) Khruschev.

4. Which segment of the American population began to support Robert Kennedy's view of the war in 1967?
(a) Ivy League graduates.
(b) Poorest Americans.
(c) Richest Americans.
(d) Middle class.

5. What dilemma faced the Justice Department when civil rights leaders in the South were brutalized?
(a) How to create laws.
(b) How to bring equal employment to the South.
(c) How to enforce constitutional law without a national police force.
(d) How to convince Southern leaders to accept black justices.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Robert Kennedy see on reservations in the 1960s?

2. According to Robert Kennedy, what needed to be addressed in America to move forward peacefully?

3. What did Robert Kennedy call the shame of poverty?

4. What did the CIA attempt to do to Fidel Castro and failed?

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

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