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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who launched a successful attack against American forces in Vietnam?
(a) North Vietnamese and Viet Cong.
(b) Communist forces of China.
(c) Communist forces of General Nguyen.
(d) Ho Chi Minh.

2. Who ran on the political platform of ending the war in 1968?
(a) James Kirk.
(b) Joe McCarthy.
(c) Robert Kennedy.
(d) Eugene McCarthy.

3. What was happening in America in 1968?
(a) Civil rights were being resolved.
(b) Ghettos exploding.
(c) An invasion from Soviet Union was imminent.
(d) Poverty was being solved.

4. When Robert Kennedy returned to the Justice Department after the death of his brother, who did he find in charge?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Steve Moody.
(c) George Wallace.
(d) Robert Brown.

5. Who resigned as Attorney General in 1964?
(a) James Erwin.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) Robert Kennedy.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

6. What did Robert Kennedy try to do to help the poor in America?
(a) Segregate them.
(b) Put them on islands far away from urban centers.
(c) Bring them into the mainstream of an abundant society.
(d) Offer them housing alternatives.

7. Which segment of the American population began to support Robert Kennedy's view of the war in 1967?
(a) Middle class.
(b) Richest Americans.
(c) Ivy League graduates.
(d) Poorest Americans.

8. Why was Robert Kennedy considered a reformer in America during the 1960s?
(a) For building trains.
(b) For secretly negotiating with Castro.
(c) For traveling to third-world nations.
(d) For challenging the status quo.

9. What did Kennedy's studies of slum squalor in America during the 1960s reveal?
(a) Lack of rights for most Americans.
(b) Destitution of migrant workers.
(c) Lack of sanitation.
(d) Violence and anger of poor families living in condemned buildings.

10. Why was Robert Kennedy hesitant to run for political office in 1968?
(a) He did not want to run against someone of his own party.
(b) He felt angry.
(c) He did not want to lose.
(d) He did not like politics.

11. After riots in 1967, where did President Johnson's focus shift?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Internal security and crime control.
(c) Housing.
(d) Economy.

12. Who told the American public that the Americans were winning in Vietnam in 1968?
(a) President Johnson and General Westmoreland.
(b) Margaret Thatcher and American corporations.
(c) Robert Kennedy and the CIA.
(d) Joe McCarthy and the Communist party of Cuba.

13. Why did John Kennedy travel to Texas in November 1963?
(a) To start the Vietnam War.
(b) To promote himself and fellow elected officials to the public.
(c) To visit his grandmother.
(d) To meet with Lyndon B. Johnson.

14. What became the new policy of the Johnson administration toward Latin America in the 1960s?
(a) Overthrow governments.
(b) Support U.S. corporations doing business there.
(c) Create democracy.
(d) Eradicate poverty.

15. Who did Robert Kennedy want the Americans to negotiate with in Vietnam?
(a) Haliburton.
(b) The Russians.
(c) The dictator.
(d) The Viet Cong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization assisted in social and economic reform in Latin America and thus prevented Communist takeovers?

2. Who signed a limited test ban treaty in 1963?

3. How many American troops were in Vietnam in 1968?

4. What relationship continued to deteriorate in 1964?

5. Why did Robert Kennedy want to promote tough legislation through his role in the Senate?

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