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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the American public grow alarmed about in 1967?
(a) The cost of the war in terms of money and human lives.
(b) The rising cost of inflation.
(c) Education.
(d) Poverty.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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 Alliance for Progress is run by a Communist dictator.
(c) The Soviet Union was secretly overtaking many governments in Latin America.
(d) The FBI was working with the CIA to undermine the Alliance for Progress.

9. What military initiative served to make a new political candidate popular?
(a) Tet Offensive.
(b) Nguyen's secret military coup of Saigon.
(c) CIA attack in Cuba.
(d) Panama cocaine seizure.

10. What policy did the U.S. government take in 1962-3 towards preventing the spread of Communism abroad?
(a) Sending off troops to Africa.
(b) Building a gigantic wall in Cuba.
(c) Sending off troops to Asia.
(d) Sending aid to growing nations.

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

12. 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 did not like politics.
(c) He did not want to lose.
(d) He felt angry.

13. 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) Joe McCarthy and the Communist party of Cuba.
(d) Robert Kennedy and the CIA.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of Robert Kennedy's early disappointments with the Johnson administration?

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

3. What did Robert Kennedy find unbearable in the 1960s?

4. Who was exempted from the mandatory 70-year old retirement in 1964?

5. What did Robert Kennedy find out when he traveled to Latin America?

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