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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 think were the two reasons for juvenile delinquency?
(a) Education and community involvement.
(b) Safety and cleanliness.
(c) Nutrition and sleep.
(d) Lack of opportunity and access to a middle class life.

2. What did Kennedy's studies of slum squalor in America during the 1960s reveal?
(a) Violence and anger of poor families living in condemned buildings.
(b) Destitution of migrant workers.
(c) Lack of sanitation.
(d) Lack of rights for most Americans.

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

4. What happened to John Kennedy in Texas in November 1963?
(a) He was assassinated.
(b) He got a degree.
(c) He won an election.
(d) He began a war.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization was created to support American foreign policy in the 1960s?

2. What did Robert Kennedy try to do to help the poor in America?

3. Who did Robert Kennedy spend time trying to assist for most of his career?

4. What payments were made to the Cuban dictator to release prisoners?

5. What did Attorney General Robert Kennedy discover during the process of judicial appointments?

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