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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Robert Kennedy spearhead covert negotiations with Castro?

2. Who was a staunch Democrat in an era of Republican dominance?

3. Who was President of the Teamsters Union?

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

5. Who did Robert Kennedy appoint to investigate anti-trust violations?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Joseph McCarthy.

2. What personal tragedies happened in the Kennedy family during the war and subsequently?

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

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

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

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

7. What action taken by Soviet leader Khrushchev immediately caused a red alert for American security?

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

9. What was the controversy surrounding the candidate for Attorney General?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In this book, Schlesinger discusses many significant issues facing the American justice system in the 1950s and 1960s such as organized crime, civil rights legislation, and accountability. What was Robert Kennedy's position on each of these issues? How did his political stance (both rhetoric and action) result in the characterization of an honest, blunt, and passionate prosecutor?

Essay Topic 2

Joseph McCarthy classified many American citizens as Communist "subversives." How did this classification isolate these people and engender fear in the public? What effect did this classification have on the judicial system initially when McCarthy reigns supreme? What effect did it have when McCarthy is removed from power? Describe.

Essay Topic 3

What was the Tet Offensive? Why was this important to changing public opinion about the Vietnam War? How did this event affect the subsequent American presidential race? Describe.

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