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

2. What was one of the first actions taken by the new Attorney General for the Kennedy administration?
(a) To put Cuban revolutionists into prison.
(b) To make the Justice Department less formal and holding meetings with virtually all employees.
(c) To build bigger prisons.
(d) To outlaw the Confederate flag.

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

4. What change occurred in the Investigations Committee as a direct result of John F. Kennedy's Senate move?
(a) Labor got along well with the government.
(b) Herbert Hoover became president of the FBI.
(c) The Committee focused on investigations instead of prosecutions.
(d) Joe McCarthy gained popularity.

5. Which son died in an explosion over France during the 1950s?
(a) John F.
(b) Patrick F.
(c) Joe Jr.
(d) Robert F.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Robert Kennedy find was a frequent result of poverty?

2. What were two measures the Attorney General Robert Kennedy took to repair inequality in the court system?

3. What policy did the U.S. government take in 1962-3 towards preventing the spread of Communism abroad?

4. Who placed nuclear missiles on Cuban soil in the 1960s?

5. To whom did Robert Kennedy turn to guide him through agricultural areas in the late 1960s and to understand how people lived?

(see the answer key)

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