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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the primary fear concerning these nations for Americans?
(a) That they would develop nuclear arsenal.
(b) That they would become Communist and controlled by Russia and China.
(c) That they would massacre innocent civilians.
(d) That they would pollute the earth.

2. Whose Vice-Presidential bid failed in 1956?
(a) Joe McCarthy.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Patrick Kennedy.

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

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

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

6. What were the two major issues surrounding the John F. Kennedy bid for the presidency?
(a) Socialism and green economics.
(b) Catholicism and civil rights.
(c) Communism and labor rights.
(d) War and anarchy.

7. In his role in the Senate Investigations Committee, what did Robert Kennedy gain a reputation for being?
(a) A skilled and thorough investigator.
(b) A wimp.
(c) A liar.
(d) A troublemaker.

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

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

10. Who did Robert Kennedy secretly negotiate a truce with that ended the Cuban missile crisis?
(a) Castro and McCarthy.
(b) Stalin and Khruschev.
(c) Dobrynin and Bolshakov.
(d) Hoover and Castro.

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

12. Whose prosecution by Attorney General Robert Kennedy caused the ire of Lyndon B. Johnson?
(a) Bobby Baker.
(b) J. Vincent Keoh.
(c) Eunice Kennedy.
(d) George Wallace.

13. What organization was created to support American foreign policy in the 1960s?
(a) United Nations.
(b) World Council on Hunger.
(c) IMF.
(d) Peace Corps.

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

15. What did John F. Kennedy succeed in achieving as a Senator?
(a) Demonstrating on behalf of Communists.
(b) Imprisoning Jimmy Hoffa.
(c) Imprisoning Walter Reuther.
(d) Passage of a labor law with a secret ballot in union leadership elections.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who traveled to Asia and witnessed the new nationalism arising in those countries?

2. Whose Senate campaign did Robert Kennedy manage?

3. Who embarked upon a witch hunt to expel Communists from America?

4. What did Attorney General Robert Kennedy discover during the process of judicial appointments?

5. Where did Robert Kennedy research poverty?

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