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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 Robert Kennedy openly criticize about American policy in Vietnam?
(a) Failure to hold negotiations and lack of reform in South Vietnam.
(b) Inability to quickly win the war.
(c) Lack of support from the locals.
(d) Failure to overthrow the Communists.

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

3. What services did the model community program offer in New York?
(a) Crisis intervention and conflict resolution.
(b) Access to food, clean beds, and clean clothes.
(c) Education and foster homes.
(d) Early childhood intervention, vocational training, employment, day care, and legal services.

4. What three organizations did Robert Kennedy enlist support from?
(a) FBI, CIA, and Pentagon.
(b) UNICEF, World Bank, and IMF.
(c) NRDC, EPA, and Security Commission.
(d) Bureau of Narcotics, IRS, and the Interstate Commerce Commission.

5. Who did Robert Kennedy work within New York to build a model community program?
(a) David Hackett.
(b) William Orrick.
(c) Bobby Barkeley.
(d) Joe McCarthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disastrous incident failed miserably in Cuba and resulted in the death of numerous invading troops?

2. What did staunch conservatives want John F. Kennedy to do regarding foreign policy?

3. What did Robert Kennedy call the shame of poverty?

4. Who was exempted from the mandatory 70-year old retirement in 1964?

5. Why did Robert Kennedy spearhead covert negotiations with Castro?

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