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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 Senate campaign did Robert Kennedy manage?
(a) Margaret Eunice.
(b) Kathleen McAllister.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Rose Hoover.

2. What role was Robert F. Kenned a great choice for but hesitant to take on for fear of nepotism?
(a) Attorney General.
(b) Supreme Court Judge.
(c) President.
(d) Vice-President.

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

4. What did Robert Kennedy find was a frequent result of poverty?
(a) Depression.
(b) Armed robbery.
(c) Theft.
(d) Juvenile deliquency.

5. What did America have to do to prevent the rise of Communism?
(a) Install a puppet regime in Indochina.
(b) Become more involved in world affairs.
(c) Give away land.
(d) Lead insurgent armies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Hoover attempt to gain convictions of leftists?

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

3. In what five areas was civil rights legislation enforced?

4. What did Robert Kennedy study at Harvard?

5. Who had terrifying power as the head of the FBI?

(see the answer key)

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