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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. What disastrous incident failed miserably in Cuba and resulted in the death of numerous invading troops?
(a) Port de Santiago.
(b) Capturing the citadel.
(c) Bay of Pigs.
(d) Hasta Luego.

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

3. What did Robert Kennedy think were the two reasons for juvenile delinquency?
(a) Safety and cleanliness.
(b) Lack of opportunity and access to a middle class life.
(c) Education and community involvement.
(d) Nutrition and sleep.

4. How did Hoover attempt to gain convictions of leftists?
(a) Through investigative hearings.
(b) Through innuendos and associations.
(c) Through hard facts.
(d) Through forced imprisonment.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What apathetic division of the Justice department did Robert Kennedy try to change?

3. How did the American government sully its reputation abroad during the 1960s?

4. What did the Asian countries yearn to be free of?

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

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