Robert Kennedy and His Times Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What payments were made to the Cuban dictator to release prisoners? (from Chapters 19-22: The Kennedys and the Cold War; the CIA and Counterinsurgency; The Cuban Connection: I; Robert Kennedy and the Missile Crisis)

Gold and cash.

Food, money, and drugs.

Gold and silver.

Transfer of authority over waterways.

2.

What did staunch conservatives want John F. Kennedy to do regarding foreign policy? (from Chapters 19-22: The Kennedys and the Cold War; the CIA and Counterinsurgency; The Cuban Connection: I; Robert Kennedy and the Missile Crisis)

Step down.

Concede defeat to anarchists.

Offer a peaceful treaty to Soviet Union.

Offer a strong military response to Communism.

3.

Who did the most notorious anti-trust case to come under investigation involve? (from Chapters 17-18: The Politics of Justice; Justice and Poverty)

Paper mill companies.

Six steel companies.

Automobile workers.

Telephone companies.

4.

What conclusion did Robert Kennedy come to after his Latin American trip? (from Chapters 23-25: The Cuban Connection II; Missions to the Third World; The Brothers II)

That they should concede defeat to Communist dictators.

That Latin America was too difficult to deal with.

That the administration would have to pick and choose what problems to address.

That they should bring in troops.

5.

Who told the American public that the Americans were winning in Vietnam in 1968? (from Chapters 36-38: Images; The Dilemma; the Decision)

President Johnson and General Westmoreland.

Joe McCarthy and the Communist party of Cuba.

Margaret Thatcher and American corporations.

Robert Kennedy and the CIA.

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