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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-29: Corridors of Grief; Stranger in a Strange Land; The Vice Presidency; To the Senate.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Robert Kennedy spearhead covert negotiations with Castro?
(a) For access to Soviet missiles.
(b) For access to drugs.
(c) To gain the release of American prisoners.
(d) For building a defense base.

2. What did many Democrats want Robert Kennedy to do in 1964?
(a) Run for vice-president.
(b) Declare bankruptcy.
(c) Resign his cabinet post.
(d) Give up his Senate seat.

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

4. Whose prosecution by Attorney General Robert Kennedy caused the ire of Lyndon B. Johnson?
(a) Bobby Baker.
(b) Eunice Kennedy.
(c) J. Vincent Keoh.
(d) George Wallace.

5. What event in Wisconsin invoked the ire of Republicans?
(a) The worker strike against Kohler plumbing.
(b) Unfair labor practices.
(c) Bargaining on behalf of the company.
(d) Communist demonstrations.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Robert Kennedy returned to the Justice Department after the death of his brother, who did he find in charge?

2. What did Robert Kennedy think was the source of all the nation's ills?

3. What relationship continued to deteriorate in 1964?

4. Where did Hoover get most of his information about organized crime?

5. What disastrous incident failed miserably in Cuba and resulted in the death of numerous invading troops?

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