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

2. What did the CIA attempt to do to Fidel Castro and failed?
(a) Assassinate him.
(b) Educate him.
(c) Win him over.
(d) Promote him.

3. What happened to Vietnam when Indochina broke up into four countries?
(a) Vietnam was bombed.
(b) Vietnam was divided into Communist North and Non-Communist South.
(c) Vietnam was assimilated into Communist China.
(d) Vietman was rife with anarchy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who moved in a direction independent of the Soviet Union following the release of American prisoners in Cuba?

2. What did people in America who opposed military action in Vietnam say about the developing conflict in the 1960s?

3. Who resigned as Attorney General in 1964?

4. What did Kennedy's studies of slum squalor in America during the 1960s reveal?

5. After riots in 1967, where did President Johnson's focus shift?

Short Essay Questions

1. Robert Kennedy emerged as a champion of the rights of certain people. Who were they?

2. Where did Robert Kennedy put his attention in 1967?

3. What action did the Pentagon take in Vietnam against the advice of Robert Kennedy?

4. What did Robert Kennedy think about the war in Vietnam?

5. How did the role of the Alliance for Progress change under the Johnson administration?

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

7. What did Robert Kennedy discover when he traveled abroad?

8. Describe Robert Kennedy in the Senate.

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

10. What was happening in Indochina in the 1960s?

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