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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 was the old practice of American politics?
(a) Young people were energized to mobilize powerful political campaigns.
(b) Political decisions were made in small rooms, and "bosses" controlled who ran for office.
(c) The Italian mob controlled all political decision-making.
(d) Fathers gave sons jobs.

2. What two national issues gave the FBI director prominence?
(a) Civil unrest and anarchy.
(b) Global genocide and environmental catastrophes.
(c) War and starvation.
(d) Communism and Naziism.

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

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

5. Who embarked upon a witch hunt to expel Communists from America?
(a) Joe McCarthy.
(b) John Kennedy.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Jimmy Hoffa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What change occurred in the Investigations Committee as a direct result of John F. Kennedy's Senate move?

2. Who traveled to Asia and witnessed the new nationalism arising in those countries?

3. What did Attorney General Robert Kennedy discover during the process of judicial appointments?

4. Who witnessed poverty firsthand and saw postwar devastation in Europe?

5. What event in Wisconsin invoked the ire of Republicans?

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