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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. Who was President of the Teamsters Union?
(a) Jimmy Hoffa.
(b) Joe McCarthy.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Walter Reuther.

2. Who fed rumors to Johnson about Robert Kennedy?
(a) Hoffa.
(b) Hoover.
(c) Wallace.
(d) McCarthy.

3. Who signed a limited test ban treaty in 1963?
(a) United States and the Soviet Union.
(b) Cuba and the Soviet Union.
(c) Cuba and Vietnam.
(d) United States and Vietnam.

4. Why did Robert Kennedy spearhead covert negotiations with Castro?
(a) For building a defense base.
(b) For access to drugs.
(c) To gain the release of American prisoners.
(d) For access to Soviet missiles.

5. What was the policy of diplomacy ascribed to by Robert and John Kennedy?
(a) Unilateral support of dictators.
(b) Action diplomacy.
(c) Zero negotiations.
(d) Installation of puppet regimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who failed to ask enough questions as a political leader during the insurgency in Vietnam?

2. What became the new policy of the Johnson administration toward Latin America in the 1960s?

3. Which issue did Robert Kennedy think posed the greatest threat facing the nation?

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

5. ______________ was Irish, an ardent anti-Communist, and liked by the Kennedy family initially.

(see the answer key)

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