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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 promise to third-world countries?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Aid.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Puppet regimes.

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

3. Who died in a plane crash when Robert Kennedy married?
(a) Ethel Skakel.
(b) Kathleen Kennedy.
(c) Rose Hoover.
(d) Rosemary Eunice.

4. How did Robert Kennedy secure the release American prisoners in the early 1960s?
(a) Through an air attack.
(b) Through a submarine.
(c) Through bombing Cuba.
(d) Through secret negotations with Castro.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who began to study the migrant poor in America in the late 1960s?

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

3. What is counter-insurgency?

4. Which two offices did the FBI director covertly oppose?

5. Under what president had the Pentagon grown very popular prior to John Kennedy assuming office?

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