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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-29: Corridors of Grief; Stranger in a Strange Land; The Vice Presidency; To the Senate.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who fed rumors to Johnson about Robert Kennedy?
(a) Hoffa.
(b) Hoover.
(c) Wallace.
(d) McCarthy.

2. Why did John Kennedy travel to Texas in November 1963?
(a) To start the Vietnam War.
(b) To promote himself and fellow elected officials to the public.
(c) To visit his grandmother.
(d) To meet with Lyndon B. Johnson.

3. What party did Adlai Stevenson belong to?
(a) Progressive.
(b) Republican.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Independent.

4. What did Robert Kennedy find about the comparative treatment of individuals in the court system?
(a) Those with money for bail and personal counsel usually were released.
(b) Those who were poor always rotted in jails.
(c) The ones who were illiterate suffered the most.
(d) The ones who came from wealthy families were never prosecuted.

5. How did Hoover attempt to gain convictions of leftists?
(a) Through investigative hearings.
(b) Through forced imprisonment.
(c) Through innuendos and associations.
(d) Through hard facts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was prosecuted by the Attorney General Robert Kennedy for taking a bribe?

2. What did many Democrats want Robert Kennedy to do in 1964?

3. What favorite activity of Hoover's did Kennedy severely limit?

4. Who scared away most witnesses from testifying against him?

5. What did Robert Kennedy discover about the Teamsters Union's president?

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