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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10: The First Investigating Committee: Joe McCarthy; Interlude: William O. Doublas and Adlai Stevenson; The Second Investigating Committee: Jimmy Hoffa; The Second Investigating Committee: Walter Reuther; 1960.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose Senate campaign did Robert Kennedy manage?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Margaret Eunice.
(c) Kathleen McAllister.
(d) Rose Hoover.

2. What did Robert Kennedy discover about the Teamsters Union's president?
(a) The president was responsible for the assassination of diplomats.
(b) Hoffa was involved with organized crime.
(c) The president went to Vietnam to raise civil unrest.
(d) The president started anarchist demonstrations.

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

4. Who was appointed ambassador to England?
(a) Rose McAllister.
(b) Joe Kennedy.
(c) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(d) Edward Kennedy.

5. When Robert Kennedy began a career in the Justice Department, what was his family life like?
(a) His wife was pregnant with their first child.
(b) His family had all died in the war.
(c) He did not have a family.
(d) He had five children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who led the United Automobile Workers (UAW)?

2. What were the two major issues surrounding the John F. Kennedy bid for the presidency?

3. What region of the world resented American interference to assist French armed forces?

4. With whom did Robert Kennedy travel in the 1950s to the Soviet Union?

5. Which son died in an explosion over France during the 1950s?

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