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

2. What did Robert Kennedy think was the source of all the nation's ills?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Disease.
(d) Religious feuds.

3. Which two governors openly defied the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education?
(a) Ross Barnett of Mississippi and George Wallace of Alabama.
(b) Ross Barnett of Alabama and George Wallace of Mississippi.
(c) Strom Thurmond of Georgia and Clint Black of Florida.
(d) Taylor Manning of Tennessee and Roy Chace of South Carolina.

4. What did Robert Kennedy find about the comparative treatment of individuals in the court system?
(a) The ones who came from wealthy families were never prosecuted.
(b) Those with money for bail and personal counsel usually were released.
(c) The ones who were illiterate suffered the most.
(d) Those who were poor always rotted in jails.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose prosecution by Attorney General Robert Kennedy caused the ire of Lyndon B. Johnson?

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

4. Who wanted to immediately take action to retaliate against the placement of missiles in Cuba?

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

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