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

2. Where did Robert Kennedy get a position because of his father's influence?
(a) House of Representatives.
(b) Senate Investigations Committee.
(c) Attorney General's office.
(d) Senate.

3. Who wanted to immediately take action to retaliate against the placement of missiles in Cuba?
(a) CIA.
(b) Doves.
(c) Hawks.
(d) Pentagon.

4. What relationship continued to deteriorate in 1964?
(a) Between Robert Kennedy and Herbert Hoover.
(b) Between Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Hoffa.
(c) Between Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert Kennedy.
(d) Between Hoover and Hoffa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who led the United Automobile Workers (UAW)?

2. What is counter-insurgency?

3. Which organization worked outside the confines and control of any governmental branch or agency?

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

5. What was a difficult decision that the Attorney General Robert Kennedy faced during judicial prosecutions?

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