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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. Who led the United Automobile Workers (UAW)?
(a) Jimmy Hoffa.
(b) Joe McCarthy.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Walter Reuther.

2. What did Robert Kennedy discover about the Teamsters Union's president?
(a) The president went to Vietnam to raise civil unrest.
(b) The president was responsible for the assassination of diplomats.
(c) Hoffa was involved with organized crime.
(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) Violation of civil rights.
(c) Death of his brother.
(d) Joe McCarthy's popularity.

4. What party did Adlai Stevenson belong to?
(a) Progressive.
(b) Independent.
(c) Republican.
(d) Democratic.

5. Who did John F. Kennedy run against in the 1960 presidential primary?
(a) Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa.
(b) Communists and Socialists.
(c) Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey.
(d) Joe McCarthy and Walter Reuther.

Short Answer Questions

1. ______________ was Irish, an ardent anti-Communist, and liked by the Kennedy family initially.

2. Who witnessed poverty firsthand and saw postwar devastation in Europe?

3. What change occurred in the Investigations Committee as a direct result of John F. Kennedy's Senate move?

4. What did Robert Kennedy study at Harvard?

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

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