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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 services did the model community program offer in New York?
(a) Crisis intervention and conflict resolution.
(b) Education and foster homes.
(c) Early childhood intervention, vocational training, employment, day care, and legal services.
(d) Access to food, clean beds, and clean clothes.

2. What was Robert Kennedy's margin when he won a Senate seat in New York?
(a) 700 votes.
(b) 700,000 votes.
(c) 800 votes.
(d) 8,000 votes.

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

4. What did people in America who opposed military action in Vietnam say about the developing conflict in the 1960s?
(a) That it was a strategic location to fight the Soviet Union from.
(b) That it caused civil unrest at home.
(c) That it was important to stop to prevent the spread of Communism.
(d) That it was a civil war that did not involve the U.S.

5. Who married a banking millionaire and had nine children?
(a) Joseph Kennedy.
(b) Rose Fitzgerald.
(c) Joseph McCarthy.
(d) Eunice Hoover.

Short Answer Questions

1. ______________ was Irish, an ardent anti-Communist, and liked by the Kennedy family initially.

2. What did Southern conservatives call the administration in 1964?

3. Which child of the Kennedy clan had a mental disease?

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

5. Who assisted in secret negotiations with Castro?

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