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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 was a major area of contention between Hoover and Robert Kennedy?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Communists.

2. What three organizations did Robert Kennedy enlist support from?
(a) NRDC, EPA, and Security Commission.
(b) FBI, CIA, and Pentagon.
(c) UNICEF, World Bank, and IMF.
(d) Bureau of Narcotics, IRS, and the Interstate Commerce Commission.

3. Why did Robert Kennedy spearhead covert negotiations with Castro?
(a) To gain the release of American prisoners.
(b) For access to Soviet missiles.
(c) For building a defense base.
(d) For access to drugs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Robert Kennedy work within New York to build a model community program?

2. What did Robert Kennedy discover about the Teamsters Union's president?

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

4. What dilemma faced the Justice Department when civil rights leaders in the South were brutalized?

5. What immigrants were not popular in the 1800s in America?

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