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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who provided the American ground troops for Vietnam?
(a) Corporations.
(b) America's poor.
(c) America's elite Ivy League school graduates.
(d) Republican party officials.

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

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

5. What did many Democrats want Robert Kennedy to do in 1964?
(a) Declare bankruptcy.
(b) Run for vice-president.
(c) Resign his cabinet post.
(d) Give up his Senate seat.

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

7. What did American political parties press for in Vietnam in the 1960s?
(a) Ceasefire.
(b) Helicopters.
(c) Ground troops.
(d) Negotiations.

8. When John Kennedy stood for reelection, what was the country enamored by?
(a) Martin Luther King.
(b) Southern Democrats.
(c) Southern Baptists.
(d) The New Frontier and the culture of Camelot.

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

10. What did Robert Kennedy warn against in Latin America when Johnson became President?
(a) The growth of Communism.
(b) The violent revolution sponsored by the Johnson administration.
(c) The decline of Castro.
(d) The popularity of oligarchical leaders.

11. Who resigned in 1964?
(a) Cabinet members and advisors to John Kennedy.
(b) Robert Kennedy.
(c) Joe McNamara.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

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

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

14. What did Robert Kennedy find unbearable in the 1960s?
(a) Injustices in American society.
(b) The health care system.
(c) The court system.
(d) The political system.

15. To whom did Robert Kennedy turn to guide him through agricultural areas in the late 1960s and to understand how people lived?
(a) Cabot Stone.
(b) Cesar Chavez.
(c) William Davis.
(d) General Nguyen.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Robert Kennedy returned to the Justice Department after the death of his brother, who did he find in charge?

2. What did Robert Kennedy openly criticize about American policy in Vietnam?

3. Which segment of the American population began to support Robert Kennedy's view of the war in 1967?

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

5. What did Robert Kennedy discover during his travel to Latin America to garner support for the Alliance for Progress?

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