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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role was Robert F. Kenned a great choice for but hesitant to take on for fear of nepotism?
(a) Supreme Court Judge.
(b) Attorney General.
(c) President.
(d) Vice-President.

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

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

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

5. What was one of the first actions taken by the new Attorney General for the Kennedy administration?
(a) To make the Justice Department less formal and holding meetings with virtually all employees.
(b) To build bigger prisons.
(c) To put Cuban revolutionists into prison.
(d) To outlaw the Confederate flag.

6. What did Attorney General Robert Kennedy discover during the process of judicial appointments?
(a) Civil rights legislation had to be paramount.
(b) Impossible to please the Southern Democrats.
(c) Irreconcilable differences in parties.
(d) The need to compromise and make deals.

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

8. Who did Robert Kennedy work within New York to build a model community program?
(a) William Orrick.
(b) Bobby Barkeley.
(c) David Hackett.
(d) Joe McCarthy.

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

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

11. What was a major area of contention between Hoover and Robert Kennedy?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Communists.
(c) Civil rights.
(d) Catholicism.

12. Who was appointed ambassador to England?
(a) Rose McAllister.
(b) Patrick Fitzgerald.
(c) Joe Kennedy.
(d) Edward Kennedy.

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

14. What immigrants were not popular in the 1800s in America?
(a) Irish.
(b) French.
(c) German.
(d) English.

15. Who traveled to Asia and witnessed the new nationalism arising in those countries?
(a) Kathleen and Margaret Eunice.
(b) Herbert and Rose Hoover.
(c) Patrick and John Kennedy.
(d) John and Robert Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who scared away most witnesses from testifying against him?

2. With whom did Robert Kennedy travel in the 1950s to the Soviet Union?

3. What did Robert Kennedy think were the two reasons for juvenile delinquency?

4. Where did Robert Kennedy get a position because of his father's influence?

5. ______________ was Irish, an ardent anti-Communist, and liked by the Kennedy family initially.

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