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

2. What two national issues gave the FBI director prominence?
(a) Civil unrest and anarchy.
(b) Communism and Naziism.
(c) War and starvation.
(d) Global genocide and environmental catastrophes.

3. Who was prosecuted by the Attorney General Robert Kennedy for taking a bribe?
(a) J. Vincent Keoh.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) George Wallace.
(d) Eunice Kennedy.

4. What did Robert Kennedy study at Harvard?
(a) History.
(b) E-commerce.
(c) Constitutional law.
(d) International business.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a major area of contention between Hoover and Robert Kennedy?

2. Whose Senate campaign did Robert Kennedy manage?

3. Who was murdered during the admittance of black students into college in Alabama?

4. What did Robert Kennedy think was the source of all the nation's ills?

5. Who did the most notorious anti-trust case to come under investigation involve?

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