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

2. What did the CIA attempt to do to Fidel Castro and failed?
(a) Assassinate him.
(b) Educate him.
(c) Promote him.
(d) Win him over.

3. 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.

4. Who had terrifying power as the head of the FBI?
(a) George Wallace.
(b) Walter Mondale.
(c) J. Edgar Hoover.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What favorite activity of Hoover's did Kennedy severely limit?

2. What two national issues gave the FBI director prominence?

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

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

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

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