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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was murdered during the admittance of black students into college in Alabama?
(a) Robert Brown.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) George Wallace.
(d) Medger Evans.

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

4. Who did Robert Kennedy appoint to investigate anti-trust violations?
(a) Bob Barkett.
(b) Joseph Smith.
(c) William Orrick.
(d) David Hackett.

5. ______________ was Irish, an ardent anti-Communist, and liked by the Kennedy family initially.
(a) Jimmy Hoffa.
(b) Joe McCarthy.
(c) Walter Reuther.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

6. Who witnessed poverty firsthand and saw postwar devastation in Europe?
(a) Robert F. Kennedy.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Robert McAllister.
(d) Thomas Gould.

7. Which organization worked outside the confines and control of any governmental branch or agency?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) CIA.
(c) Pentagon.
(d) FBI.

8. What dilemma faced the Justice Department when civil rights leaders in the South were brutalized?
(a) How to convince Southern leaders to accept black justices.
(b) How to create laws.
(c) How to bring equal employment to the South.
(d) How to enforce constitutional law without a national police force.

9. 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 removed the need for lawyers and bail in all cases.
(c) He encouraged the use of death penalty and waterboarding.
(d) He built bigger, stronger prisons.

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

11. With whom did Robert Kennedy travel in the 1950s to the Soviet Union?
(a) Joe McCarthy.
(b) Justice Douglas.
(c) Jimmy Hoffa.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

12. What did Robert Kennedy think were the two reasons for juvenile delinquency?
(a) Education and community involvement.
(b) Lack of opportunity and access to a middle class life.
(c) Nutrition and sleep.
(d) Safety and cleanliness.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two governors openly defied the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education?

2. What was a major area of contention between Hoover and Robert Kennedy?

3. Who was President of the Teamsters Union?

4. What did Robert Kennedy study at Harvard?

5. Who was appointed ambassador to England?

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