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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 36-38: Images; The Dilemma; the Decision.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which child of the Kennedy clan had a mental disease?
(a) Jean.
(b) John.
(c) Rosemary.
(d) Eunice.

2. To whom did Robert Kennedy turn to guide him through agricultural areas in the late 1960s and to understand how people lived?
(a) General Nguyen.
(b) Cabot Stone.
(c) Cesar Chavez.
(d) William Davis.

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

4. What did the American public grow alarmed about in 1967?
(a) The rising cost of inflation.
(b) Education.
(c) The cost of the war in terms of money and human lives.
(d) Poverty.

5. Who provided the American ground troops for Vietnam?
(a) Republican party officials.
(b) Corporations.
(c) America's poor.
(d) America's elite Ivy League school graduates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a difficult decision that the Attorney General Robert Kennedy faced during judicial prosecutions?

2. What decision did President Johnson make about the war in Vietnam during the 1960s?

3. What immigrants were not popular in the 1800s in America?

4. Where were the problems of Latin America replicated in the 1960s?

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

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