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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-29: Corridors of Grief; Stranger in a Strange Land; The Vice Presidency; To the Senate.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What three organizations did Robert Kennedy enlist support from?
(a) NRDC, EPA, and Security Commission.
(b) FBI, CIA, and Pentagon.
(c) UNICEF, World Bank, and IMF.
(d) Bureau of Narcotics, IRS, and the Interstate Commerce Commission.

2. What was the policy of diplomacy ascribed to by Robert and John Kennedy?
(a) Zero negotiations.
(b) Installation of puppet regimes.
(c) Unilateral support of dictators.
(d) Action diplomacy.

3. Who resigned as Attorney General in 1964?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) James Erwin.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Robert Kennedy.

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. Why did John Kennedy travel to Texas in November 1963?
(a) To promote himself and fellow elected officials to the public.
(b) To meet with Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) To start the Vietnam War.
(d) To visit his grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was paranoid about losing the election in 1964?

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

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

4. What were the two major issues surrounding the John F. Kennedy bid for the presidency?

5. What relationship continued to deteriorate in 1964?

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