This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30-33: The Foreign Policy Breach: Latin America; Vietnam Legacy; The Breach Widens: Vietnam; The Breach Widens: South Africa, New York.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What change occurred in the Investigations Committee as a direct result of John F. Kennedy's Senate move?
(a) Joe McCarthy gained popularity.
(b) Labor got along well with the government.
(c) The Committee focused on investigations instead of prosecutions.
(d) Herbert Hoover became president of the FBI.

2. What was a major area of contention between Hoover and Robert Kennedy?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Communists.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Anarchy.

3. What did American political parties press for in Vietnam in the 1960s?
(a) Ground troops.
(b) Ceasefire.
(c) Negotiations.
(d) Helicopters.

4. What were two measures the Attorney General Robert Kennedy took to repair inequality in the court system?
(a) He built bigger, stronger prisons.
(b) He encouraged the use of death penalty and waterboarding.
(c) He encouraged rehabilitation and separating the youth from hardened criminals.
(d) He removed the need for lawyers and bail in all cases.

5. What did Robert Kennedy find about the comparative treatment of individuals in the court system?
(a) Those who were poor always rotted in jails.
(b) Those with money for bail and personal counsel usually were released.
(c) The ones who were illiterate suffered the most.
(d) The ones who came from wealthy families were never prosecuted.