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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 34-35: Time of Troubles; Tribune of the Underclass.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Hoover attempt to gain convictions of leftists?
(a) Through hard facts.
(b) Through investigative hearings.
(c) Through forced imprisonment.
(d) Through innuendos and associations.

2. Who was appointed ambassador to England?
(a) Edward Kennedy.
(b) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(c) Joe Kennedy.
(d) Rose McAllister.

3. To whom did Robert Kennedy turn to guide him through agricultural areas in the late 1960s and to understand how people lived?
(a) General Nguyen.
(b) William Davis.
(c) Cabot Stone.
(d) Cesar Chavez.

4. Why did Robert Kennedy want to promote tough legislation through his role in the Senate?
(a) To make a difference for the poor and blacks.
(b) To appear strong.
(c) To win votes.
(d) To create a bipartisan Senate.

5. Who provided the American ground troops for Vietnam?
(a) Corporations.
(b) America's elite Ivy League school graduates.
(c) Republican party officials.
(d) America's poor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What devastated Robert Kennedy?

3. What were two measures the Attorney General Robert Kennedy took to repair inequality in the court system?

4. What was the old practice of American politics?

5. What did people in America who opposed military action in Vietnam say about the developing conflict in the 1960s?

(see the answer key)

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