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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 the American government sully its reputation abroad during the 1960s?
(a) By refusing to compromise beliefs.
(b) By refusing to engage in war.
(c) By offering aid to despotic governments.
(d) By advocating democracy.

2. Which organization worked outside the confines and control of any governmental branch or agency?
(a) Pentagon.
(b) Civil rights.
(c) FBI.
(d) CIA.

3. What was the primary fear concerning these nations for Americans?
(a) That they would develop nuclear arsenal.
(b) That they would massacre innocent civilians.
(c) That they would pollute the earth.
(d) That they would become Communist and controlled by Russia and China.

4. ______________ was Irish, an ardent anti-Communist, and liked by the Kennedy family initially.
(a) Walter Reuther.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Joe McCarthy.
(d) Jimmy Hoffa.

5. Who were two personal friends of the Kennedy family that were also prosecuted?
(a) Oleg Cassini's brother and James Landis.
(b) Herbert Hoover and Edward Brown.
(c) Bobby Barker and George Wallace.
(d) Joe McCarthy and Robert McNamara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what president had the Pentagon grown very popular prior to John Kennedy assuming office?

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

3. Who was the hated dictator in former Indochina in the 1960s?

4. What was one of Robert Kennedy's early disappointments with the Johnson administration?

5. Who began to study the migrant poor in America in the late 1960s?

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