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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. What did staunch conservatives want John F. Kennedy to do regarding foreign policy?
(a) Offer a strong military response to Communism.
(b) Offer a peaceful treaty to Soviet Union.
(c) Step down.
(d) Concede defeat to anarchists.

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

3. What devastated Robert Kennedy?
(a) The creation of South Vietnam.
(b) The arrival of twins.
(c) The building of nuclear Iran.
(d) The death of the president.

4. Who traveled to Asia and witnessed the new nationalism arising in those countries?
(a) Herbert and Rose Hoover.
(b) Patrick and John Kennedy.
(c) Kathleen and Margaret Eunice.
(d) John and Robert Kennedy.

5. Whose Vice-Presidential bid failed in 1956?
(a) Joe McCarthy.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Patrick Kennedy.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a major area of contention between Hoover and Robert Kennedy?

2. Who did Robert Kennedy appoint to investigate anti-trust violations?

3. In his role in the Senate Investigations Committee, what did Robert Kennedy gain a reputation for being?

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

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

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