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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. Who married a banking millionaire and had nine children?
(a) Eunice Hoover.
(b) Rose Fitzgerald.
(c) Joseph McCarthy.
(d) Joseph Kennedy.

2. Who scared away most witnesses from testifying against him?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Jimmy Hoffa.
(c) Walter Reuther.
(d) Joe McCarthy.

3. Who did Robert Kennedy appoint to investigate anti-trust violations?
(a) David Hackett.
(b) William Orrick.
(c) Joseph Smith.
(d) Bob Barkett.

4. What did Robert Kennedy think was the source of all the nation's ills?
(a) Religious feuds.
(b) Disease.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Ignorance.

5. What did Robert Kennedy find was a frequent result of poverty?
(a) Depression.
(b) Theft.
(c) Armed robbery.
(d) Juvenile deliquency.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What favorite activity of Hoover's did Kennedy severely limit?

3. What services did the model community program offer in New York?

4. Who was appointed ambassador to England?

5. What role was Robert F. Kenned a great choice for but hesitant to take on for fear of nepotism?

(see the answer key)

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