View a FREE sample

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 immigrants were not popular in the 1800s in America?
(a) Irish.
(b) English.
(c) French.
(d) German.

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

3. Where did Robert Kennedy get a position because of his father's influence?
(a) Attorney General's office.
(b) Senate.
(c) House of Representatives.
(d) Senate Investigations Committee.

4. Who embarked upon a witch hunt to expel Communists from America?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Jimmy Hoffa.
(c) Joe McCarthy.
(d) John Kennedy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Robert Kennedy study at Harvard?

4. Who was President of the Teamsters Union?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 194 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample