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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What payments were made to the Cuban dictator to release prisoners?
(a) Gold and silver.
(b) Food, money, and drugs.
(c) Transfer of authority over waterways.
(d) Gold and cash.

2. Who wanted a blockade and negotiation with Cuba when they heard about the missiles?
(a) Pentagon.
(b) CIA.
(c) Doves.
(d) Hawks.

3. Who did the most notorious anti-trust case to come under investigation involve?
(a) Six steel companies.
(b) Telephone companies.
(c) Automobile workers.
(d) Paper mill companies.

4. What services did the model community program offer in New York?
(a) Crisis intervention and conflict resolution.
(b) Early childhood intervention, vocational training, employment, day care, and legal services.
(c) Education and foster homes.
(d) Access to food, clean beds, and clean clothes.

5. Who married a banking millionaire and had nine children?
(a) Joseph McCarthy.
(b) Rose Fitzgerald.
(c) Joseph Kennedy.
(d) Eunice Hoover.

6. What was American policy in the emerging nations of Asia and Africa?
(a) To overthrow existing governments.
(b) To wage war against despots.
(c) To prevent the spread of communism.
(d) To spread democracy.

7. What did Robert Kennedy find about the comparative treatment of individuals in the court system?
(a) The ones who came from wealthy families were never prosecuted.
(b) The ones who were illiterate suffered the most.
(c) Those who were poor always rotted in jails.
(d) Those with money for bail and personal counsel usually were released.

8. Who did Robert Kennedy marry?
(a) Rose Hoover.
(b) Ethel Skakel.
(c) Kathleen McAllister.
(d) Rosemary Eunice.

9. What region of the world resented American interference to assist French armed forces?
(a) Australia.
(b) Philippines.
(c) Indochina.
(d) Fiji.

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

11. What event in Wisconsin invoked the ire of Republicans?
(a) Unfair labor practices.
(b) Bargaining on behalf of the company.
(c) Communist demonstrations.
(d) The worker strike against Kohler plumbing.

12. Whose Senate campaign did Robert Kennedy manage?
(a) Kathleen McAllister.
(b) Rose Hoover.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Margaret Eunice.

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

14. What favorite activity of Hoover's did Kennedy severely limit?
(a) Wiretapping.
(b) Concentration camps.
(c) Investigative reporting.
(d) Forced imprisonment.

15. Where did Robert Kennedy research poverty?
(a) Urban ghettos.
(b) In a law firm.
(c) In the library.
(d) In the courtroom.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who were two personal friends of the Kennedy family that were also prosecuted?

3. Who was the first Black justice official appointed by the Attorney General?

4. Who did Robert Kennedy secretly negotiate a truce with that ended the Cuban missile crisis?

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

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