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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Robert Kennedy find out when he traveled to Latin America?
(a) The people were wildly enthusiastic about his arrival.
(b) The people resented American support of despotic governments simply for being anti-Communist.
(c) Latin America was under heavy bombardment.
(d) The Latin American people were violently oppressed by dictators.

2. What did Kennedy's studies of slum squalor in America during the 1960s reveal?
(a) Lack of sanitation.
(b) Violence and anger of poor families living in condemned buildings.
(c) Lack of rights for most Americans.
(d) Destitution of migrant workers.

3. What did Southern conservatives call the administration in 1964?
(a) Bleeding heart liberals.
(b) Right-wing.
(c) Segregationist.
(d) Religious.

4. How did Robert Kennedy secure the release American prisoners in the early 1960s?
(a) Through secret negotations with Castro.
(b) Through an air attack.
(c) Through bombing Cuba.
(d) Through a submarine.

5. What was happening in America in 1968?
(a) An invasion from Soviet Union was imminent.
(b) Civil rights were being resolved.
(c) Poverty was being solved.
(d) Ghettos exploding.

6. Why did some Americans believe that staying in Vietnam was important?
(a) To win the popular vote.
(b) To build bigger American corporations.
(c) To prevent the spread of Communism.
(d) To stop civil war in America.

7. What operation launched by the CIA in Cuba also met with disastrous results?
(a) Fidel Capture.
(b) Bay of Pigs.
(c) Operation Mongoose.
(d) Khruschev Initiative.

8. What did Robert Kennedy see on reservations in the 1960s?
(a) Large casinos.
(b) Industry.
(c) Hopelessness.
(d) Prosperity.

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

10. Who resigned as Attorney General in 1964?
(a) James Erwin.
(b) Robert Kennedy.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

11. What did Robert Kennedy find unbearable in the 1960s?
(a) Injustices in American society.
(b) The court system.
(c) The political system.
(d) The health care system.

12. What gained popularity in Vietnam in the 1960s?
(a) Food camps.
(b) Death camps.
(c) Guerilla warfare.
(d) Communism.

13. Why did John Kennedy travel to Texas in November 1963?
(a) To promote himself and fellow elected officials to the public.
(b) To meet with Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) To start the Vietnam War.
(d) To visit his grandmother.

14. What became the new policy of the Johnson administration toward Latin America in the 1960s?
(a) Support U.S. corporations doing business there.
(b) Overthrow governments.
(c) Create democracy.
(d) Eradicate poverty.

15. What two issues did Robert Kennedy choose to address from 1963 onwards?
(a) Destitution and rape.
(b) Juvenile delinquency and crime.
(c) Poverty and civil rights.
(d) Murder and disenfranchisement.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did Robert Kennedy turn to guide him through agricultural areas in the late 1960s and to understand how people lived?

2. Who told the American public that the Americans were winning in Vietnam in 1968?

3. What incident occurred in 1968 in Vietnam that antagonized public opinion toward Johnson?

4. What did Robert Kennedy openly criticize about American policy in Vietnam?

5. What devastated Robert Kennedy?

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