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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. Which issue did Robert Kennedy think posed the greatest threat facing the nation?
(a) Organized crime.
(b) Civil rights.
(c) Communism.
(d) Narcotics.

2. What did Robert Kennedy try to do to help the poor in America?
(a) Segregate them.
(b) Offer them housing alternatives.
(c) Put them on islands far away from urban centers.
(d) Bring them into the mainstream of an abundant society.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the first actions taken by the new Attorney General for the Kennedy administration?

2. Who was the first Black justice official appointed by the Attorney General?

3. Where did many migrant workers in America during the late 1960s live?

4. What did Robert Kennedy see on reservations in the 1960s?

5. What did the American public grow alarmed about in 1967?

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