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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-22: The Kennedys and the Cold War; the CIA and Counterinsurgency; The Cuban Connection: I; Robert Kennedy and the Missile Crisis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which son died in an explosion over France during the 1950s?
(a) Robert F.
(b) John F.
(c) Joe Jr.
(d) Patrick F.

2. Who did Robert Kennedy marry?
(a) Ethel Skakel.
(b) Kathleen McAllister.
(c) Rosemary Eunice.
(d) Rose Hoover.

3. What services did the model community program offer in New York?
(a) Access to food, clean beds, and clean clothes.
(b) Early childhood intervention, vocational training, employment, day care, and legal services.
(c) Education and foster homes.
(d) Crisis intervention and conflict resolution.

4. How did the American government sully its reputation abroad during the 1960s?
(a) By offering aid to despotic governments.
(b) By refusing to engage in war.
(c) By advocating democracy.
(d) By refusing to compromise beliefs.

5. Where did Hoover get most of his information about organized crime?
(a) Infiltration.
(b) Bugging.
(c) Videotapes.
(d) Secret observers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the old practice of American politics?

2. Which two governors openly defied the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education?

3. During the 1960s, what emerged as the primary U.S. goal with foreign relations?

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

5. Whose Senate campaign did Robert Kennedy manage?

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