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

2. With whom did Robert Kennedy travel in the 1950s to the Soviet Union?
(a) Justice Douglas.
(b) Joe McCarthy.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Jimmy Hoffa.

3. What did Robert Kennedy think were the two reasons for juvenile delinquency?
(a) Safety and cleanliness.
(b) Education and community involvement.
(c) Lack of opportunity and access to a middle class life.
(d) Nutrition and sleep.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were two personal friends of the Kennedy family that were also prosecuted?

2. Which issue did Robert Kennedy think posed the greatest threat facing the nation?

3. What services did the model community program offer in New York?

4. Where did Robert Kennedy research poverty?

5. What did John F. Kennedy succeed in achieving as a Senator?

(see the answer key)

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