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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. What change occurred in the Investigations Committee as a direct result of John F. Kennedy's Senate move?
(a) Labor got along well with the government.
(b) Herbert Hoover became president of the FBI.
(c) The Committee focused on investigations instead of prosecutions.
(d) Joe McCarthy gained popularity.

2. ______________ was Irish, an ardent anti-Communist, and liked by the Kennedy family initially.
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Walter Reuther.
(c) Joe McCarthy.
(d) Jimmy Hoffa.

3. What was the primary fear concerning these nations for Americans?
(a) That they would pollute the earth.
(b) That they would develop nuclear arsenal.
(c) That they would massacre innocent civilians.
(d) That they would become Communist and controlled by Russia and China.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who embarked upon a witch hunt to expel Communists from America?

3. Who traveled to Asia and witnessed the new nationalism arising in those countries?

4. Who was a staunch Democrat in an era of Republican dominance?

5. Where did the Kennedy own homes?

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