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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. Who did the most notorious anti-trust case to come under investigation involve?
(a) Six steel companies.
(b) Automobile workers.
(c) Telephone companies.
(d) Paper mill companies.

2. What was the primary fear concerning these nations for Americans?
(a) That they would pollute the earth.
(b) That they would develop nuclear arsenal.
(c) That they would massacre innocent civilians.
(d) That they would become Communist and controlled by Russia and China.

3. Whose prosecution by Attorney General Robert Kennedy caused the ire of Lyndon B. Johnson?
(a) J. Vincent Keoh.
(b) Bobby Baker.
(c) Eunice Kennedy.
(d) George Wallace.

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

5. What event in Wisconsin invoked the ire of Republicans?
(a) Unfair labor practices.
(b) The worker strike against Kohler plumbing.
(c) Communist demonstrations.
(d) Bargaining on behalf of the company.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Robert Kennedy travel in the 1950s to the Soviet Union?

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

3. What three organizations did Robert Kennedy enlist support from?

4. What role was Robert F. Kenned a great choice for but hesitant to take on for fear of nepotism?

5. What did the Asian countries yearn to be free of?

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