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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-18: The Politics of Justice; Justice and Poverty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What immigrants were not popular in the 1800s in America?
(a) French.
(b) Irish.
(c) English.
(d) German.

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

3. Which institution opposed the changes happening in the Justice Department?
(a) CIA.
(b) FBI.
(c) Security Council.
(d) Pentagon.

4. What did Robert Kennedy find was a frequent result of poverty?
(a) Theft.
(b) Juvenile deliquency.
(c) Depression.
(d) Armed robbery.

5. Who embarked upon a witch hunt to expel Communists from America?
(a) Joe McCarthy.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Jimmy Hoffa.
(d) John Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose Vice-Presidential bid failed in 1956?

2. What event in Wisconsin invoked the ire of Republicans?

3. What did Robert Kennedy think was the source of all the nation's ills?

4. What were two measures the Attorney General Robert Kennedy took to repair inequality in the court system?

5. Who died in a plane crash when Robert Kennedy married?

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