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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Robert Kennedy's margin when he won a Senate seat in New York?
(a) 700,000 votes.
(b) 8,000 votes.
(c) 800 votes.
(d) 700 votes.

3. What did Robert Kennedy promise to third-world countries?
(a) Puppet regimes.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Aid.

4. What was one of Robert Kennedy's early disappointments with the Johnson administration?
(a) Failure to remove extremists.
(b) Change in purpose of the Alliance for Progress.
(c) Failure to remove poverty.
(d) Inability to stop civil unrest.

5. What did Southern conservatives call the administration in 1964?
(a) Religious.
(b) Segregationist.
(c) Right-wing.
(d) Bleeding heart liberals.

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

7. What incident occurred in 1968 in Vietnam that antagonized public opinion toward Johnson?
(a) Arrival of Soviet troops in Miami.
(b) Division of Vietnam into North and South Vietnam.
(c) Tet Offensive.
(d) Murder of Joe McCarthy.

8. What two different sides of Robert Kennedy emerged in 1968?
(a) Good cop and bad cop.
(b) Idealist and realist.
(c) Powerful ally and weak parent.
(d) Ruthless dictator and compassionate leader.

9. What did Robert Kennedy vehemently oppose as it escalated by 1967?
(a) Soviet invasion.
(b) Alliance for Progress.
(c) Cuban Missile Crisis.
(d) Vietnam War.

10. What did Robert Kennedy discover during his travel to Latin America to garner support for the Alliance for Progress?
(a) There is a lot of Anti-American sentiment among the people of these nations.
(b) The FBI was working with the CIA to undermine the Alliance for Progress.
(c) The Alliance for Progress is run by a Communist dictator.
(d) The Soviet Union was secretly overtaking many governments in Latin America.

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

12. Who was paranoid about losing the election in 1964?
(a) Robert Kennedy.
(b) Robert Brown.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

13. Who was the hated dictator in former Indochina in the 1960s?
(a) Diem.
(b) Ho Chi Minh.
(c) Saigon.
(d) Laos.

14. What operation launched by the CIA in Cuba also met with disastrous results?
(a) Bay of Pigs.
(b) Khruschev Initiative.
(c) Fidel Capture.
(d) Operation Mongoose.

15. Who failed to ask enough questions as a political leader during the insurgency in Vietnam?
(a) President Kennedy.
(b) Robert Kennedy.
(c) President Johnson.
(d) Cabot Lodge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What American policy change instigated by the Johnson administration did Robert Kennedy oppose in Latin America?

2. Who moved in a direction independent of the Soviet Union following the release of American prisoners in Cuba?

3. What did Robert Kennedy see on reservations in the 1960s?

4. What did Robert Kennedy warn against in Latin America when Johnson became President?

5. What did Robert Kennedy become known for when he debated political arguments during the presidential campaign in 1964?

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