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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-18: The Politics of Justice; Justice and Poverty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose prosecution by Attorney General Robert Kennedy caused the ire of Lyndon B. Johnson?
(a) George Wallace.
(b) Eunice Kennedy.
(c) J. Vincent Keoh.
(d) Bobby Baker.

2. Who witnessed poverty firsthand and saw postwar devastation in Europe?
(a) Thomas Gould.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Robert McAllister.
(d) Robert F. Kennedy.

3. ______________ was Irish, an ardent anti-Communist, and liked by the Kennedy family initially.
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Jimmy Hoffa.
(c) Joe McCarthy.
(d) Walter Reuther.

4. Which institution opposed the changes happening in the Justice Department?
(a) Security Council.
(b) Pentagon.
(c) CIA.
(d) FBI.

5. When Robert Kennedy began a career in the Justice Department, what was his family life like?
(a) His wife was pregnant with their first child.
(b) He did not have a family.
(c) His family had all died in the war.
(d) He had five children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What dilemma faced the Justice Department when civil rights leaders in the South were brutalized?

2. What did Robert Kennedy discover about the Teamsters Union's president?

3. Who was President of the Teamsters Union?

4. What did Robert Kennedy think were the two reasons for juvenile delinquency?

5. With whom did Robert Kennedy travel in the 1950s to the Soviet Union?

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