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

2. What operation launched by the CIA in Cuba also met with disastrous results?
(a) Fidel Capture.
(b) Khruschev Initiative.
(c) Operation Mongoose.
(d) Bay of Pigs.

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

4. What organization assisted in social and economic reform in Latin America and thus prevented Communist takeovers?
(a) FBI.
(b) CIA.
(c) Treasury Department.
(d) Alliance for Progress.

5. Where did many migrant workers in America during the late 1960s live?
(a) On rooftops.
(b) Cars and buses.
(c) In apartments.
(d) Under railroads.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did Robert Kennedy turn to guide him through agricultural areas in the late 1960s and to understand how people lived?

2. What did Kennedy's studies of slum squalor in America during the 1960s reveal?

3. Who assisted in secret negotiations with Castro?

4. What did Robert Kennedy try to do to help the poor in America?

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

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