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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. Who signed a limited test ban treaty in 1963?
(a) Cuba and Vietnam.
(b) United States and the Soviet Union.
(c) Cuba and the Soviet Union.
(d) United States and Vietnam.

2. Instead of bombing Vietnam, what did Robert Kennedy propose?
(a) Leaving.
(b) Ground troop attacks.
(c) Truce.
(d) Negotiations.

3. What did Robert Kennedy call the shame of poverty?
(a) That poverty created abuse.
(b) That poor people had no clothes to wear.
(c) That poverty created illiteracy.
(d) That the wealthiest nation could tolerate such conditions for its poor.

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

5. What did Kennedy's studies of slum squalor in America during the 1960s reveal?
(a) Lack of rights for most Americans.
(b) Violence and anger of poor families living in condemned buildings.
(c) Lack of sanitation.
(d) Destitution of migrant workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who began to study the migrant poor in America in the late 1960s?

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

3. In what five areas was civil rights legislation enforced?

4. What conclusion did Robert Kennedy come to after his Latin American trip?

5. How did Hoover attempt to gain convictions of leftists?

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