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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which issue did Robert Kennedy think posed the greatest threat facing the nation?
(a) Organized crime.
(b) Communism.
(c) Civil rights.
(d) Narcotics.

2. What change occurred in the Investigations Committee as a direct result of John F. Kennedy's Senate move?
(a) Herbert Hoover became president of the FBI.
(b) Joe McCarthy gained popularity.
(c) Labor got along well with the government.
(d) The Committee focused on investigations instead of prosecutions.

3. Who was President of the Teamsters Union?
(a) Joe McCarthy.
(b) Jimmy Hoffa.
(c) Walter Reuther.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

4. Who wanted to immediately take action to retaliate against the placement of missiles in Cuba?
(a) CIA.
(b) Hawks.
(c) Doves.
(d) Pentagon.

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 put Cuban revolutionists into prison.
(c) To build bigger prisons.
(d) To outlaw the Confederate flag.

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

7. What three organizations did Robert Kennedy enlist support from?
(a) UNICEF, World Bank, and IMF.
(b) FBI, CIA, and Pentagon.
(c) NRDC, EPA, and Security Commission.
(d) Bureau of Narcotics, IRS, and the Interstate Commerce Commission.

8. When Robert Kennedy began a career in the Justice Department, what was his family life like?
(a) His wife was pregnant with their first child.
(b) His family had all died in the war.
(c) He did not have a family.
(d) He had five children.

9. Where did Hoover get most of his information about organized crime?
(a) Bugging.
(b) Secret observers.
(c) Videotapes.
(d) Infiltration.

10. What apathetic division of the Justice department did Robert Kennedy try to change?
(a) The social services division.
(b) The anti-trust division.
(c) The criminal justice division.
(d) The special services division.

11. Which child of the Kennedy clan had a mental disease?
(a) Eunice.
(b) John.
(c) Rosemary.
(d) Jean.

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

13. In what five areas was civil rights legislation enforced?
(a) Education, transportation, suffrage, housing, and employment.
(b) Security, commerce, research, legislation, and justice.
(c) Marriage, home ownership, bus travel, shared housing, and community dining.
(d) Federal parks, state parks, public buildings, airlines, and taxis.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What role was Robert F. Kenned a great choice for but hesitant to take on for fear of nepotism?

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

3. Who did Robert Kennedy marry?

4. Who placed nuclear missiles on Cuban soil in the 1960s?

5. What did the Asian countries yearn to be free of?

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