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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Under what president had the Pentagon grown very popular prior to John Kennedy assuming office?
(a) Taft.
(b) Carter.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Roosevelt.

3. Which two offices did the FBI director covertly oppose?
(a) National defense and civil rights.
(b) State and municipal.
(c) Attorney General and President.
(d) Civil unions and health care.

4. What is counter-insurgency?
(a) The fight of local citizens against oppressive governments.
(b) The war efforts of underground citizens supported by the American military.
(c) Efforts of governments in emerging countries to fight revolutionaries trying to overthrow them.
(d) Guerilla warfare.

5. What discouraged Robert Kennedy during his work in the Justice Department?
(a) Joe McCarthy's popularity.
(b) Violation of civil rights.
(c) Death of his brother.
(d) His inability to obtain indictments of the big players in labor and management corruption.

6. What did Robert Kennedy think was the source of all the nation's ills?
(a) Religious feuds.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Disease.
(d) Poverty.

7. How did Hoover attempt to gain convictions of leftists?
(a) Through innuendos and associations.
(b) Through forced imprisonment.
(c) Through hard facts.
(d) Through investigative hearings.

8. What were two measures the Attorney General Robert Kennedy took to repair inequality in the court system?
(a) He built bigger, stronger prisons.
(b) He encouraged the use of death penalty and waterboarding.
(c) He encouraged rehabilitation and separating the youth from hardened criminals.
(d) He removed the need for lawyers and bail in all cases.

9. What two national issues gave the FBI director prominence?
(a) Global genocide and environmental catastrophes.
(b) Civil unrest and anarchy.
(c) War and starvation.
(d) Communism and Naziism.

10. Who embarked upon a witch hunt to expel Communists from America?
(a) Jimmy Hoffa.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) John Kennedy.
(d) Joe McCarthy.

11. What did staunch conservatives want John F. Kennedy to do regarding foreign policy?
(a) Concede defeat to anarchists.
(b) Offer a peaceful treaty to Soviet Union.
(c) Offer a strong military response to Communism.
(d) Step down.

12. Who convinced an American President to invade Cuba in the 1960s?
(a) Robert Kennedy.
(b) Fidel Castro.
(c) CIA.
(d) Jorge Guerra.

13. Who placed nuclear missiles on Cuban soil in the 1960s?
(a) Robert Kennedy.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Soviet President Khrushchev.
(d) Joe McCarthy.

14. During the 1960s, what emerged as the primary U.S. goal with foreign relations?
(a) To support their governments.
(b) To maintain regimes friendly to America.
(c) To fight for equality among all countries.
(d) To promote democracy.

15. What was a difficult decision that the Attorney General Robert Kennedy faced during judicial prosecutions?
(a) Fighting insurgents.
(b) Indicting Democrats who had been loyal supporters of the Kennedy family.
(c) Compromising with Catholics.
(d) Facing corruption in their own family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What apathetic division of the Justice department did Robert Kennedy try to change?

2. What did Robert Kennedy find about the comparative treatment of individuals in the court system?

3. Who did John F. Kennedy run against in the 1960 presidential primary?

4. What favorite activity of Hoover's did Kennedy severely limit?

5. Which issue did Robert Kennedy think posed the greatest threat facing the nation?

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