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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. After the Bay of Pigs Incident, how did American politicians differ on what to do next?
(a) Conservatives wanted to overthrow the Kennedy administration while liberals wanted to send a diplomatic mission to Cuba.
(b) Joe McCarthy won support among conservatives to run against Robert Kennedy as Attorney General.
(c) Conservatives pressed for an all out invasion while Robert Kennedy was concerned with securing the release of American prisoners.
(d) Liberals encouraged the use of arms while conservatives proposed an air strike.

2. How did Robert Kennedy secure the release American prisoners in the early 1960s?
(a) Through a submarine.
(b) Through an air attack.
(c) Through secret negotations with Castro.
(d) Through bombing Cuba.

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

4. What favorite activity of Hoover's did Kennedy severely limit?
(a) Concentration camps.
(b) Investigative reporting.
(c) Forced imprisonment.
(d) Wiretapping.

5. Who was the first Black justice official appointed by the Attorney General?
(a) Robert McAllister.
(b) Burke Marshall.
(c) Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
(d) George Wallace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What operation launched by the CIA in Cuba also met with disastrous results?

2. What did Robert Kennedy vehemently oppose as it escalated by 1967?

3. After riots in 1967, where did President Johnson's focus shift?

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

5. Which two offices did the FBI director covertly oppose?

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