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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. 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 friends with Fidel Castro.
(c) That they were one organization.
(d) That they were Communist.

5. What did people in America who opposed military action in Vietnam say about the developing conflict in the 1960s?
(a) That it caused civil unrest at home.
(b) That it was a strategic location to fight the Soviet Union from.
(c) That it was a civil war that did not involve the U.S.
(d) That it was important to stop to prevent the spread of Communism.

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

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

8. What did Robert Kennedy become known for when he debated political arguments during the presidential campaign in 1964?
(a) His passion and bluntness.
(b) His ruthlessness.
(c) His charismatic personality.
(d) His sly attitude.

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

10. What did Robert Kennedy call the shame of poverty?
(a) That poor people had no clothes to wear.
(b) That the wealthiest nation could tolerate such conditions for its poor.
(c) That poverty created abuse.
(d) That poverty created illiteracy.

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

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

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

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

15. Who did Robert Kennedy spend time trying to assist for most of his career?
(a) The wealthy suburban Democrats.
(b) The poor and disenfranchised.
(c) The argumentative Southern Baptists.
(d) The feisty Boston Whalers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who led a military coup to oust Diem from office?

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

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

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

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

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