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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 was the policy of diplomacy ascribed to by Robert and John Kennedy?
(a) Unilateral support of dictators.
(b) Action diplomacy.
(c) Zero negotiations.
(d) Installation of puppet regimes.

2. Who scared away most witnesses from testifying against him?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Joe McCarthy.
(c) Jimmy Hoffa.
(d) Walter Reuther.

3. Who had terrifying power as the head of the FBI?
(a) George Wallace.
(b) J. Edgar Hoover.
(c) Walter Mondale.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

4. Who provided the American ground troops for Vietnam?
(a) Corporations.
(b) America's elite Ivy League school graduates.
(c) America's poor.
(d) Republican party officials.

5. What two issues did Robert Kennedy choose to address from 1963 onwards?
(a) Juvenile delinquency and crime.
(b) Destitution and rape.
(c) Poverty and civil rights.
(d) Murder and disenfranchisement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was appointed ambassador to England?

2. What did Kennedy's studies of slum squalor in America during the 1960s reveal?

3. Who was a staunch Democrat in an era of Republican dominance?

4. Who launched a successful attack against American forces in Vietnam?

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

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