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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. Whose administration was falling apart as the war in Vietnam continued to rage in 1967?
(a) Johnson's.
(b) Robert Kennedy's.
(c) Eisenhower's.
(d) John Kennedy's.

2. Who scared away most witnesses from testifying against him?
(a) Jimmy Hoffa.
(b) Walter Reuther.
(c) Joe McCarthy.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

3. What was a major area of contention between Hoover and Robert Kennedy?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Communists.
(c) Civil rights.
(d) Catholicism.

4. Which child of the Kennedy clan had a mental disease?
(a) Jean.
(b) Rosemary.
(c) Eunice.
(d) John.

5. To whom did Robert Kennedy turn to guide him through agricultural areas in the late 1960s and to understand how people lived?
(a) Cesar Chavez.
(b) General Nguyen.
(c) Cabot Stone.
(d) William Davis.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Robert Kennedy announced his Presidential candidacy in 1968, what happened within his own party?

2. Who was prosecuted by the Attorney General Robert Kennedy for taking a bribe?

3. Who resigned in 1964?

4. How did the American government sully its reputation abroad during the 1960s?

5. Who began to study the migrant poor in America in the late 1960s?

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