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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where did Robert Kennedy research poverty?
(a) Urban ghettos.
(b) In the courtroom.
(c) In a law firm.
(d) In the library.
2. What was on the mind of Americans when John Kennedy was elected as President?
(a) Post-industrial boom.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Cold War.
(d) World War II.
3. What were two measures the Attorney General Robert Kennedy took to repair inequality in the court system?
(a) He encouraged rehabilitation and separating the youth from hardened criminals.
(b) He encouraged the use of death penalty and waterboarding.
(c) He removed the need for lawyers and bail in all cases.
(d) He built bigger, stronger prisons.
4. Who scared away most witnesses from testifying against him?
(a) Joe McCarthy.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Walter Reuther.
(d) Jimmy Hoffa.
5. Whose Senate campaign did Robert Kennedy manage?
(a) Rose Hoover.
(b) Margaret Eunice.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Kathleen McAllister.
6. What did staunch conservatives want John F. Kennedy to do regarding foreign policy?
(a) Concede defeat to anarchists.
(b) Step down.
(c) Offer a peaceful treaty to Soviet Union.
(d) Offer a strong military response to Communism.
7. Who wanted to immediately take action to retaliate against the placement of missiles in Cuba?
(a) Hawks.
(b) Doves.
(c) Pentagon.
(d) CIA.
8. What payments were made to the Cuban dictator to release prisoners?
(a) Transfer of authority over waterways.
(b) Gold and silver.
(c) Food, money, and drugs.
(d) Gold and cash.
9. What was the old practice of American politics?
(a) The Italian mob controlled all political decision-making.
(b) Political decisions were made in small rooms, and "bosses" controlled who ran for office.
(c) Fathers gave sons jobs.
(d) Young people were energized to mobilize powerful political campaigns.
10. What did Robert Kennedy study at Harvard?
(a) Constitutional law.
(b) History.
(c) E-commerce.
(d) International business.
11. What did Attorney General Robert Kennedy discover during the process of judicial appointments?
(a) Irreconcilable differences in parties.
(b) Impossible to please the Southern Democrats.
(c) Civil rights legislation had to be paramount.
(d) The need to compromise and make deals.
12. Who was murdered during the admittance of black students into college in Alabama?
(a) Medger Evans.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) Robert Brown.
(d) Rosa Parks.
13. What immigrants were not popular in the 1800s in America?
(a) French.
(b) Irish.
(c) German.
(d) English.
14. Who did Robert Kennedy work within New York to build a model community program?
(a) Joe McCarthy.
(b) Bobby Barkeley.
(c) William Orrick.
(d) David Hackett.
15. What is counter-insurgency?
(a) The war efforts of underground citizens supported by the American military.
(b) Efforts of governments in emerging countries to fight revolutionaries trying to overthrow them.
(c) The fight of local citizens against oppressive governments.
(d) Guerilla warfare.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the primary fear concerning these nations for Americans?
2. Who did the most notorious anti-trust case to come under investigation involve?
3. What did Robert Kennedy think were the two reasons for juvenile delinquency?
4. What change occurred in the Investigations Committee as a direct result of John F. Kennedy's Senate move?
5. Who convinced an American President to invade Cuba in the 1960s?
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