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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 39-41: The Journey Begins; The Long Day Wanes; To Sail Beyond...the Western Stars, Until I Die.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Robert Kennedy discover about the FBI and the CIA after the assassination of the President?
(a) That they were Communist.
(b) That they were one organization.
(c) That they were friends with Fidel Castro.
(d) That they had withheld information from the Warren Commission.

2. Who assisted in secret negotiations with Castro?
(a) John Donovan.
(b) Khruschev.
(c) Mikhail Gorbachev.
(d) Vladimir Putin.

3. What happened to Vietnam when Indochina broke up into four countries?
(a) Vietnam was divided into Communist North and Non-Communist South.
(b) Vietnam was bombed.
(c) Vietnam was assimilated into Communist China.
(d) Vietman was rife with anarchy.

4. What dilemma faced the Justice Department when civil rights leaders in the South were brutalized?
(a) How to bring equal employment to the South.
(b) How to enforce constitutional law without a national police force.
(c) How to create laws.
(d) How to convince Southern leaders to accept black justices.

5. Who was paranoid about losing the election in 1964?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Robert Brown.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Robert Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Robert Kennedy see on reservations in the 1960s?

2. Who was assassinated in 1968, affecting all political candidates?

3. What American policy change instigated by the Johnson administration did Robert Kennedy oppose in Latin America?

4. What important issues did the 1968 presidential candidates debate about apart from war?

5. In what year did Robert Kennedy become the preferred Democratic candidate for the office of president?

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