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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-18: The Politics of Justice; Justice and Poverty.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who had terrifying power as the head of the FBI?
(a) J. Edgar Hoover.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) George Wallace.
(d) Walter Mondale.

3. What were two measures the Attorney General Robert Kennedy took to repair inequality in the court system?
(a) He removed the need for lawyers and bail in all cases.
(b) He encouraged the use of death penalty and waterboarding.
(c) He encouraged rehabilitation and separating the youth from hardened criminals.
(d) He built bigger, stronger prisons.

4. What favorite activity of Hoover's did Kennedy severely limit?
(a) Wiretapping.
(b) Forced imprisonment.
(c) Concentration camps.
(d) Investigative reporting.

5. Which child of the Kennedy clan had a mental disease?
(a) Rosemary.
(b) Eunice.
(c) John.
(d) Jean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What apathetic division of the Justice department did Robert Kennedy try to change?

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

5. Where did the Kennedy own homes?

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