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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Johnson want to use Robert Kennedy for?
(a) To draft civil rights legislature.
(b) To fight the war in Vietnam.
(c) To win over Southern Baptists.
(d) To win over Southern conservatives.

3. What relationship continued to deteriorate in 1964?
(a) Between Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Hoffa.
(b) Between Robert Kennedy and Herbert Hoover.
(c) Between Hoover and Hoffa.
(d) Between Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert Kennedy.

4. Who was exempted from the mandatory 70-year old retirement in 1964?
(a) Kennedy.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Hoover.
(d) Brown.

5. What devastated Robert Kennedy?
(a) The creation of South Vietnam.
(b) The arrival of twins.
(c) The death of the president.
(d) The building of nuclear Iran.

6. What did Robert Kennedy discover about the FBI and the CIA after the assassination of the President?
(a) That they had withheld information from the Warren Commission.
(b) That they were one organization.
(c) That they were Communist.
(d) That they were friends with Fidel Castro.

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

8. Instead of bombing Vietnam, what did Robert Kennedy propose?
(a) Ground troop attacks.
(b) Leaving.
(c) Negotiations.
(d) Truce.

9. Why did some Americans believe that staying in Vietnam was important?
(a) To build bigger American corporations.
(b) To prevent the spread of Communism.
(c) To stop civil war in America.
(d) To win the popular vote.

10. How many American troops were in Vietnam in 1968?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 525,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 100,000.

11. How did Robert Kennedy secure the release American prisoners in the early 1960s?
(a) Through secret negotations with Castro.
(b) Through an air attack.
(c) Through a submarine.
(d) Through bombing Cuba.

12. What gained popularity in Vietnam in the 1960s?
(a) Guerilla warfare.
(b) Food camps.
(c) Death camps.
(d) Communism.

13. Who moved in a direction independent of the Soviet Union following the release of American prisoners in Cuba?
(a) John Kennedy.
(b) Fidel Castro.
(c) Robert Kennedy.
(d) Joe McCarthy.

14. Where did many migrant workers in America during the late 1960s live?
(a) Under railroads.
(b) In apartments.
(c) On rooftops.
(d) Cars and buses.

15. What conclusion did Robert Kennedy come to after his Latin American trip?
(a) That the administration would have to pick and choose what problems to address.
(b) That Latin America was too difficult to deal with.
(c) That they should bring in troops.
(d) That they should concede defeat to Communist dictators.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose administration was falling apart as the war in Vietnam continued to rage in 1967?

2. Who was paranoid about losing the election in 1964?

3. When John Kennedy stood for reelection, what was the country enamored by?

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

5. What did the American public grow alarmed about in 1967?

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