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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. As Attorney General, what did Robert Kennedy become well known for?
(a) High expectations and ideals.
(b) Cowardice.
(c) Ruthlessness.
(d) Ineptitude.

2. What did John F. Kennedy succeed in achieving as a Senator?
(a) Demonstrating on behalf of Communists.
(b) Imprisoning Walter Reuther.
(c) Imprisoning Jimmy Hoffa.
(d) Passage of a labor law with a secret ballot in union leadership elections.

3. Who placed nuclear missiles on Cuban soil in the 1960s?
(a) Soviet President Khrushchev.
(b) Robert Kennedy.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Joe McCarthy.

4. What organization was created to support American foreign policy in the 1960s?
(a) World Council on Hunger.
(b) United Nations.
(c) Peace Corps.
(d) IMF.

5. Whose prosecution by Attorney General Robert Kennedy caused the ire of Lyndon B. Johnson?
(a) George Wallace.
(b) J. Vincent Keoh.
(c) Eunice Kennedy.
(d) Bobby Baker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Robert Kennedy research poverty?

2. Who led the United Automobile Workers (UAW)?

3. What did Robert Kennedy study at Harvard?

4. Who died in a plane crash when Robert Kennedy married?

5. What did Robert Kennedy think were the two reasons for juvenile delinquency?

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