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

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

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

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

5. According to Robert Kennedy, what needed to be addressed in America to move forward peacefully?
(a) Suffering.
(b) Racial discord.
(c) Religious strife.
(d) Disease.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What two issues did Robert Kennedy choose to address from 1963 onwards?

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

4. Who signed a limited test ban treaty in 1963?

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

(see the answer key)

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