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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. During the 1960s, what emerged as the primary U.S. goal with foreign relations?
(a) To support their governments.
(b) To promote democracy.
(c) To fight for equality among all countries.
(d) To maintain regimes friendly to America.

2. What relationship continued to deteriorate in 1964?
(a) Between Hoover and Hoffa.
(b) Between Robert Kennedy and Herbert Hoover.
(c) Between Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert Kennedy.
(d) Between Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Hoffa.

3. When Robert Kennedy returned to the Justice Department after the death of his brother, who did he find in charge?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) Steve Moody.
(d) Robert Brown.

4. What were two measures the Attorney General Robert Kennedy took to repair inequality in the court system?
(a) He built bigger, stronger prisons.
(b) He encouraged rehabilitation and separating the youth from hardened criminals.
(c) He encouraged the use of death penalty and waterboarding.
(d) He removed the need for lawyers and bail in all cases.

5. What did Robert Kennedy find was a frequent result of poverty?
(a) Theft.
(b) Armed robbery.
(c) Depression.
(d) Juvenile deliquency.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was appointed ambassador to England?

2. What gained popularity in Vietnam in the 1960s?

3. What was Robert Kennedy's margin when he won a Senate seat in New York?

4. After the landmark anti-trust case, what distinction occurred between the two political parties?

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

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