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

2. What two issues had Lyndon B. Johnson failed to address adequately as President?
(a) Ending the war and poverty.
(b) Environmental degradation and hunger strikes.
(c) Civil rights and civil unions.
(d) Communist and despotic foreign governments.

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

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

5. Who signed a limited test ban treaty in 1963?
(a) Cuba and the Soviet Union.
(b) Cuba and Vietnam.
(c) United States and the Soviet Union.
(d) United States and Vietnam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two issues did Robert Kennedy choose to address from 1963 onwards?

2. When Robert Kennedy announced his Presidential candidacy in 1968, what happened within his own party?

3. What happened to John Kennedy in Texas in November 1963?

4. Who fed rumors to Johnson about Robert Kennedy?

5. What did Robert Kennedy try to do to help the poor in America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Robert Kennedy think were the most important issues facing America?

2. Why was Robert Kennedy labeled a "reformer" during the Vietnam War?

3. What did Robert Kennedy do to improve American foreign policy in 1963?

4. How did Johnson use Robert Kennedy's popularity as Attorney General for his own gain?

5. After Robert Kennedy left the government, what changes happened in the Justice Department?

6. Where did Cesar Chavez take Robert Kennedy, and what effect did it have on Kennedy?

7. What happened during the 1963 election campaign that devastated Robert Kennedy?

8. What effect did the Vietnam War have on the Johnson administration?

9. Why did the Tet Offensive increase animosity of the American public towards the Vietnam War?

10. What did Robert Kennedy warn the U.S. government about in Latin America?

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