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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 34-35: Time of Troubles; Tribune of the Underclass.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who signed a limited test ban treaty in 1963?
(a) Cuba and Vietnam.
(b) United States and Vietnam.
(c) Cuba and the Soviet Union.
(d) United States and the Soviet Union.

3. Who was murdered during the admittance of black students into college in Alabama?
(a) Medger Evans.
(b) Robert Brown.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) George Wallace.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Robert Kennedy find unbearable in the 1960s?

2. What did Kennedy's studies of slum squalor in America during the 1960s reveal?

3. Which issue did Robert Kennedy think posed the greatest threat facing the nation?

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

5. How did Hoover attempt to gain convictions of leftists?

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