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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. Who provided the American ground troops for Vietnam?
(a) America's elite Ivy League school graduates.
(b) Corporations.
(c) Republican party officials.
(d) America's poor.

2. After riots in 1967, where did President Johnson's focus shift?
(a) Internal security and crime control.
(b) Housing.
(c) Economy.
(d) Civil rights.

3. What policy did the U.S. government take in 1962-3 towards preventing the spread of Communism abroad?
(a) Building a gigantic wall in Cuba.
(b) Sending off troops to Africa.
(c) Sending aid to growing nations.
(d) Sending off troops to Asia.

4. What did Robert Kennedy discover during his travel to Latin America to garner support for the Alliance for Progress?
(a) The Alliance for Progress is run by a Communist dictator.
(b) The Soviet Union was secretly overtaking many governments in Latin America.
(c) The FBI was working with the CIA to undermine the Alliance for Progress.
(d) There is a lot of Anti-American sentiment among the people of these nations.

5. What did the American public grow alarmed about in 1967?
(a) The cost of the war in terms of money and human lives.
(b) Poverty.
(c) The rising cost of inflation.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was murdered during the admittance of black students into college in Alabama?

2. Who began to study the migrant poor in America in the late 1960s?

3. Which institution opposed the changes happening in the Justice Department?

4. What organization assisted in social and economic reform in Latin America and thus prevented Communist takeovers?

5. What did Robert Kennedy call the shame of poverty?

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