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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. What did Attorney General Robert Kennedy discover during the process of judicial appointments?
(a) Civil rights legislation had to be paramount.
(b) The need to compromise and make deals.
(c) Irreconcilable differences in parties.
(d) Impossible to please the Southern Democrats.

2. What party did Adlai Stevenson belong to?
(a) Democratic.
(b) Republican.
(c) Independent.
(d) Progressive.

3. Who was President of the Teamsters Union?
(a) Jimmy Hoffa.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Joe McCarthy.
(d) Walter Reuther.

4. What did Robert Kennedy discover about the Teamsters Union's president?
(a) The president was responsible for the assassination of diplomats.
(b) Hoffa was involved with organized crime.
(c) The president started anarchist demonstrations.
(d) The president went to Vietnam to raise civil unrest.

5. Who had terrifying power as the head of the FBI?
(a) J. Edgar Hoover.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Walter Mondale.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did John F. Kennedy run against in the 1960 presidential primary?

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

3. What three organizations did Robert Kennedy enlist support from?

4. Who embarked upon a witch hunt to expel Communists from America?

5. What role was Robert F. Kenned a great choice for but hesitant to take on for fear of nepotism?

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