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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30-33: The Foreign Policy Breach: Latin America; Vietnam Legacy; The Breach Widens: Vietnam; The Breach Widens: South Africa, New York.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two governors openly defied the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education?
(a) Ross Barnett of Alabama and George Wallace of Mississippi.
(b) Strom Thurmond of Georgia and Clint Black of Florida.
(c) Taylor Manning of Tennessee and Roy Chace of South Carolina.
(d) Ross Barnett of Mississippi and George Wallace of Alabama.

2. What did Johnson want to use Robert Kennedy for?
(a) To win over Southern Baptists.
(b) To fight the war in Vietnam.
(c) To draft civil rights legislature.
(d) To win over Southern conservatives.

3. Who was the first Black justice official appointed by the Attorney General?
(a) Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) Burke Marshall.
(d) Robert McAllister.

4. What relationship continued to deteriorate in 1964?
(a) Between Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Hoffa.
(b) Between Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert Kennedy.
(c) Between Robert Kennedy and Herbert Hoover.
(d) Between Hoover and Hoffa.

5. What apathetic division of the Justice department did Robert Kennedy try to change?
(a) The criminal justice division.
(b) The anti-trust division.
(c) The special services division.
(d) The social services division.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gained popularity in Vietnam in the 1960s?

2. Where did Hoover get most of his information about organized crime?

3. What did Robert Kennedy try to do to help the poor in America?

4. Which institution opposed the changes happening in the Justice Department?

5. What devastated Robert Kennedy?

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