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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-18: The Politics of Justice; Justice and Poverty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Robert Kennedy research poverty?
(a) In the library.
(b) In a law firm.
(c) Urban ghettos.
(d) In the courtroom.

2. Who was appointed ambassador to England?
(a) Joe Kennedy.
(b) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(c) Edward Kennedy.
(d) Rose McAllister.

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

4. What discouraged Robert Kennedy during his work in the Justice Department?
(a) Death of his brother.
(b) Joe McCarthy's popularity.
(c) Violation of civil rights.
(d) His inability to obtain indictments of the big players in labor and management corruption.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who witnessed poverty firsthand and saw postwar devastation in Europe?

2. What three organizations did Robert Kennedy enlist support from?

3. Which organization worked outside the confines and control of any governmental branch or agency?

4. Who was a staunch Democrat in an era of Republican dominance?

5. Who did Robert Kennedy work within New York to build a model community program?

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