Robert Kennedy and His Times Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

How did Robert Kennedy gain popularity after the 1968 assassination? (from Chapters 39-41: The Journey Begins; The Long Day Wanes; To Sail Beyond...the Western Stars, Until I Die)

He bribed people.

He took over the government.

He was the brother of the dead president.

He was able to speak freely to both blacks and whites.

2.

Whose supporters lashed out at Robert Kennedy as an opportunist during the Democratic nomination? (from Chapters 39-41: The Journey Begins; The Long Day Wanes; To Sail Beyond...the Western Stars, Until I Die)

Hubert Humphrey's.

Eugene McCarthy's.

Lyndon B. Johnson's.

Joe McCarthy's

3.

In what year did Robert Kennedy become the preferred Democratic candidate for the office of president? (from Chapters 39-41: The Journey Begins; The Long Day Wanes; To Sail Beyond...the Western Stars, Until I Die)

1966.

1965.

1968.

1967.

4.

What did Johnson want to use Robert Kennedy for? (from Chapters 26-29: Corridors of Grief; Stranger in a Strange Land; The Vice Presidency; To the Senate)

To draft civil rights legislature.

To win over Southern conservatives.

To fight the war in Vietnam.

To win over Southern Baptists.

5.

What did Robert Kennedy call the shame of poverty? (from Chapter 34-35: Time of Troubles; Tribune of the Underclass)

That poverty created abuse.

That poor people had no clothes to wear.

That the wealthiest nation could tolerate such conditions for its poor.

That poverty created illiteracy.

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