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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 event in Wisconsin invoked the ire of Republicans?
(a) The worker strike against Kohler plumbing.
(b) Unfair labor practices.
(c) Communist demonstrations.
(d) Bargaining on behalf of the company.

2. Who did Robert Kennedy secretly negotiate a truce with that ended the Cuban missile crisis?
(a) Hoover and Castro.
(b) Dobrynin and Bolshakov.
(c) Stalin and Khruschev.
(d) Castro and McCarthy.

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

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

5. Who scared away most witnesses from testifying against him?
(a) Jimmy Hoffa.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Walter Reuther.
(d) Joe McCarthy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What role was Robert F. Kenned a great choice for but hesitant to take on for fear of nepotism?

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

4. What payments were made to the Cuban dictator to release prisoners?

5. Who married a banking millionaire and had nine children?

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