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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. Whose Vice-Presidential bid failed in 1956?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Patrick Kennedy.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Joe McCarthy.

2. What was on the mind of Americans when John Kennedy was elected as President?
(a) Fascism.
(b) Post-industrial boom.
(c) World War II.
(d) Cold War.

3. What discouraged Robert Kennedy during his work in the Justice Department?
(a) Violation of civil rights.
(b) His inability to obtain indictments of the big players in labor and management corruption.
(c) Joe McCarthy's popularity.
(d) Death of his brother.

4. What did John F. Kennedy succeed in achieving as a Senator?
(a) Demonstrating on behalf of Communists.
(b) Imprisoning Walter Reuther.
(c) Passage of a labor law with a secret ballot in union leadership elections.
(d) Imprisoning Jimmy Hoffa.

5. What was American policy in the emerging nations of Asia and Africa?
(a) To wage war against despots.
(b) To spread democracy.
(c) To prevent the spread of communism.
(d) To overthrow existing governments.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who scared away most witnesses from testifying against him?

2. What did Robert Kennedy find was a frequent result of poverty?

3. Who was prosecuted by the Attorney General Robert Kennedy for taking a bribe?

4. What event in Wisconsin invoked the ire of Republicans?

5. What did Robert Kennedy think was the source of all the nation's ills?

(see the answer key)

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