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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. Why did Robert Kennedy spearhead covert negotiations with Castro?
(a) To gain the release of American prisoners.
(b) For building a defense base.
(c) For access to drugs.
(d) For access to Soviet missiles.

2. What did Robert Kennedy find out when he traveled to Latin America?
(a) Latin America was under heavy bombardment.
(b) The people were wildly enthusiastic about his arrival.
(c) The Latin American people were violently oppressed by dictators.
(d) The people resented American support of despotic governments simply for being anti-Communist.

3. After riots in 1967, where did President Johnson's focus shift?
(a) Internal security and crime control.
(b) Civil rights.
(c) Economy.
(d) Housing.

4. What relationship continued to deteriorate in 1964?
(a) Between Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Hoffa.
(b) Between Hoover and Hoffa.
(c) Between Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert Kennedy.
(d) Between Robert Kennedy and Herbert Hoover.

5. What discouraged Robert Kennedy during his work in the Justice Department?
(a) Joe McCarthy's popularity.
(b) Violation of civil rights.
(c) His inability to obtain indictments of the big players in labor and management corruption.
(d) Death of his brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did many migrant workers in America during the late 1960s live?

2. What party did Adlai Stevenson belong to?

3. Who was exempted from the mandatory 70-year old retirement in 1964?

4. What devastated Robert Kennedy?

5. What was a difficult decision that the Attorney General Robert Kennedy faced during judicial prosecutions?

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