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

2. What were two measures the Attorney General Robert Kennedy took to repair inequality in the court system?
(a) He encouraged the use of death penalty and waterboarding.
(b) He removed the need for lawyers and bail in all cases.
(c) He encouraged rehabilitation and separating the youth from hardened criminals.
(d) He built bigger, stronger prisons.

3. Which organization worked outside the confines and control of any governmental branch or agency?
(a) CIA.
(b) FBI.
(c) Pentagon.
(d) Civil rights.

4. What is counter-insurgency?
(a) The war efforts of underground citizens supported by the American military.
(b) The fight of local citizens against oppressive governments.
(c) Efforts of governments in emerging countries to fight revolutionaries trying to overthrow them.
(d) Guerilla warfare.

5. Who were two personal friends of the Kennedy family that were also prosecuted?
(a) Herbert Hoover and Edward Brown.
(b) Bobby Barker and George Wallace.
(c) Oleg Cassini's brother and James Landis.
(d) Joe McCarthy and Robert McNamara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose prosecution by Attorney General Robert Kennedy caused the ire of Lyndon B. Johnson?

2. Who did Robert Kennedy marry?

3. What discouraged Robert Kennedy during his work in the Justice Department?

4. What change occurred in the Investigations Committee as a direct result of John F. Kennedy's Senate move?

5. Whose Vice-Presidential bid failed in 1956?

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