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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose Senate campaign did Robert Kennedy manage?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Rose Hoover.
(c) Kathleen McAllister.
(d) Margaret Eunice.

2. What disastrous incident failed miserably in Cuba and resulted in the death of numerous invading troops?
(a) Capturing the citadel.
(b) Port de Santiago.
(c) Bay of Pigs.
(d) Hasta Luego.

3. Who wanted to immediately take action to retaliate against the placement of missiles in Cuba?
(a) Hawks.
(b) Doves.
(c) Pentagon.
(d) CIA.

4. What was on the mind of Americans when John Kennedy was elected as President?
(a) Fascism.
(b) Post-industrial boom.
(c) World War II.
(d) Cold War.

5. Which son died in an explosion over France during the 1950s?
(a) Patrick F.
(b) Joe Jr.
(c) John F.
(d) Robert F.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who scared away most witnesses from testifying against him?

2. What change occurred in the Investigations Committee as a direct result of John F. Kennedy's Senate move?

3. What apathetic division of the Justice department did Robert Kennedy try to change?

4. Which institution opposed the changes happening in the Justice Department?

5. Who traveled to Asia and witnessed the new nationalism arising in those countries?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect did the Cold War have on American foreign policy?

2. Whose appointment as an Assistant Attorney General invoked rage, and what was the immediate consequence of this action?

3. What did Robert Kennedy do in New York to improve the lives of the poverty-stricken?

4. How did the American government react to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

5. How did Robert Kennedy unknowingly restrict Hoover's secret techniques for investigation?

6. What was Robert Kennedy's role in the investigation of Kohler Plumbing?

7. What action did Robert Kennedy take to enforce the 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision in the south?

8. What role did Robert Kennedy play in the early 1950s in government?

9. What was the direct political result of Robert Kennedy's investigation of the six steel companies in the anti-trust case?

10. Describe how Robert Kennedy's travels abroad affected his study and subsequent work.

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