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

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

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

4. Which two offices did the FBI director covertly oppose?
(a) State and municipal.
(b) Civil unions and health care.
(c) Attorney General and President.
(d) National defense and civil rights.

5. Who assisted in secret negotiations with Castro?
(a) Mikhail Gorbachev.
(b) John Donovan.
(c) Khruschev.
(d) Vladimir Putin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hoover get most of his information about organized crime?

2. What did the CIA attempt to do to Fidel Castro and failed?

3. Which segment of the American population began to support Robert Kennedy's view of the war in 1967?

4. Who did Robert Kennedy spend time trying to assist for most of his career?

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

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