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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-16: To the Department of Justice; the Pursuit of Justice: J. Edgar Hoover; The Pursuit of Justice: The Mob; The Pursuit of Justice: Civil Rights; The Pursuit of Justice: Ross Barnett and George Wallace; The Pursuit of Justice: Martin Luther K.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which son died in an explosion over France during the 1950s?
(a) Patrick F.
(b) John F.
(c) Joe Jr.
(d) Robert F.

2. Who witnessed poverty firsthand and saw postwar devastation in Europe?
(a) Robert F. Kennedy.
(b) Thomas Gould.
(c) Robert McAllister.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

3. What was one of the first actions taken by the new Attorney General for the Kennedy administration?
(a) To make the Justice Department less formal and holding meetings with virtually all employees.
(b) To build bigger prisons.
(c) To outlaw the Confederate flag.
(d) To put Cuban revolutionists into prison.

4. 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.

5. Who scared away most witnesses from testifying against him?
(a) Walter Reuther.
(b) Jimmy Hoffa.
(c) Joe McCarthy.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who traveled to Asia and witnessed the new nationalism arising in those countries?

2. Whose Vice-Presidential bid failed in 1956?

3. Who did Robert Kennedy marry?

4. Who embarked upon a witch hunt to expel Communists from America?

5. What did America have to do to prevent the rise of Communism?

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