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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. What did the CIA attempt to do to Fidel Castro and failed?
(a) Assassinate him.
(b) Educate him.
(c) Promote him.
(d) Win him over.

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

3. What did the Asian countries yearn to be free of?
(a) Violent anarchists.
(b) Southern insurgents.
(c) Communist influence.
(d) European imperialism.

4. Who led the United Automobile Workers (UAW)?
(a) Joe McCarthy.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Walter Reuther.
(d) Jimmy Hoffa.

5. What favorite activity of Hoover's did Kennedy severely limit?
(a) Forced imprisonment.
(b) Concentration camps.
(c) Wiretapping.
(d) Investigative reporting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What policy did the U.S. government take in 1962-3 towards preventing the spread of Communism abroad?

2. Who convinced an American President to invade Cuba in the 1960s?

3. What did many Democrats want Robert Kennedy to do in 1964?

4. What two national issues gave the FBI director prominence?

5. Which child of the Kennedy clan had a mental disease?

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