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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. What is counter-insurgency?
(a) Guerilla warfare.
(b) Efforts of governments in emerging countries to fight revolutionaries trying to overthrow them.
(c) The fight of local citizens against oppressive governments.
(d) The war efforts of underground citizens supported by the American military.

2. What was a major area of contention between Hoover and Robert Kennedy?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Communists.
(d) Catholicism.

3. Where did Hoover get most of his information about organized crime?
(a) Infiltration.
(b) Bugging.
(c) Secret observers.
(d) Videotapes.

4. What change occurred in the Investigations Committee as a direct result of John F. Kennedy's Senate move?
(a) Joe McCarthy gained popularity.
(b) Herbert Hoover became president of the FBI.
(c) Labor got along well with the government.
(d) The Committee focused on investigations instead of prosecutions.

5. In his role in the Senate Investigations Committee, what did Robert Kennedy gain a reputation for being?
(a) A liar.
(b) A wimp.
(c) A skilled and thorough investigator.
(d) A troublemaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were two personal friends of the Kennedy family that were also prosecuted?

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

3. Which two governors openly defied the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education?

4. What organizations had numerous opponents to John Kennedy's foreign policy?

5. What did Robert Kennedy study at Harvard?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the momentum the civil rights picked up after the death of student Medgar Evans.

2. How did the FBI function during the 1960s when John F. Kennedy came to power?

3. How did Joe become involved in politics?

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

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

6. What did Robert Kennedy discover about juvenile delinquency in urban ghettos?

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

8. How did the CIA act on its own accord in Cuba at this time?

9. Describe being an American of Irish origin in the 1800s.

10. What were some indictments that Robert Kennedy pursued as Attorney General that were difficult?

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