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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 34-35: Time of Troubles; Tribune of the Underclass.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the first Black justice official appointed by the Attorney General?
(a) Burke Marshall.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
(d) Robert McAllister.

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

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

4. Who had terrifying power as the head of the FBI?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) J. Edgar Hoover.
(c) George Wallace.
(d) Walter Mondale.

5. What did Robert Kennedy promise to third-world countries?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Aid.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Puppet regimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization assisted in social and economic reform in Latin America and thus prevented Communist takeovers?

2. What did the CIA attempt to do to Fidel Castro and failed?

3. Which two offices did the FBI director covertly oppose?

4. Where did many migrant workers in America during the late 1960s live?

5. Which institution opposed the changes happening in the Justice Department?

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