View a FREE sample

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 happening in America in 1968?
(a) Civil rights were being resolved.
(b) Ghettos exploding.
(c) Poverty was being solved.
(d) An invasion from Soviet Union was imminent.

2. Where were the problems of Latin America replicated in the 1960s?
(a) Africa.
(b) Australia.
(c) Indochina.
(d) South America.

3. Who resigned as Attorney General in 1964?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) James Erwin.
(d) Robert Kennedy.

4. What did Johnson want to use Robert Kennedy for?
(a) To fight the war in Vietnam.
(b) To win over Southern conservatives.
(c) To win over Southern Baptists.
(d) To draft civil rights legislature.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What favorite activity of Hoover's did Kennedy severely limit?

3. What two issues did Robert Kennedy choose to address from 1963 onwards?

4. What organization assisted in social and economic reform in Latin America and thus prevented Communist takeovers?

5. What did Robert Kennedy find out when he traveled to Latin America?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 242 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample