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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 did Attorney General Robert Kennedy discover during the process of judicial appointments?
(a) The need to compromise and make deals.
(b) Irreconcilable differences in parties.
(c) Civil rights legislation had to be paramount.
(d) Impossible to please the Southern Democrats.

2. Whose Vice-Presidential bid failed in 1956?
(a) Joe McCarthy.
(b) Patrick Kennedy.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

3. Who witnessed poverty firsthand and saw postwar devastation in Europe?
(a) Thomas Gould.
(b) Robert McAllister.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Robert F. Kennedy.

4. Who was President of the Teamsters Union?
(a) Walter Reuther.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Jimmy Hoffa.
(d) Joe McCarthy.

5. Who did the most notorious anti-trust case to come under investigation involve?
(a) Telephone companies.
(b) Paper mill companies.
(c) Six steel companies.
(d) Automobile workers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the primary fear concerning these nations for Americans?

3. Who had terrifying power as the head of the FBI?

4. Who did Robert Kennedy appoint to investigate anti-trust violations?

5. Who was appointed ambassador to England?

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