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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 36-38: Images; The Dilemma; the Decision.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Robert Kennedy find about the comparative treatment of individuals in the court system?
(a) The ones who were illiterate suffered the most.
(b) Those with money for bail and personal counsel usually were released.
(c) The ones who came from wealthy families were never prosecuted.
(d) Those who were poor always rotted in jails.

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

3. What did Robert Kennedy become known for when he debated political arguments during the presidential campaign in 1964?
(a) His ruthlessness.
(b) His passion and bluntness.
(c) His sly attitude.
(d) His charismatic personality.

4. Where did many migrant workers in America during the late 1960s live?
(a) In apartments.
(b) Under railroads.
(c) On rooftops.
(d) Cars and buses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who provided the American ground troops for Vietnam?

2. Who did the most notorious anti-trust case to come under investigation involve?

3. Why did Robert Kennedy spearhead covert negotiations with Castro?

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

5. What did America have to do to prevent the rise of Communism?

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