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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10: The First Investigating Committee: Joe McCarthy; Interlude: William O. Doublas and Adlai Stevenson; The Second Investigating Committee: Jimmy Hoffa; The Second Investigating Committee: Walter Reuther; 1960.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which son died in an explosion over France during the 1950s?
(a) Joe Jr.
(b) Patrick F.
(c) Robert F.
(d) John F.

2. What did John F. Kennedy succeed in achieving as a Senator?
(a) Imprisoning Walter Reuther.
(b) Imprisoning Jimmy Hoffa.
(c) Demonstrating on behalf of Communists.
(d) Passage of a labor law with a secret ballot in union leadership elections.

3. What did the Asian countries yearn to be free of?
(a) Violent anarchists.
(b) European imperialism.
(c) Communist influence.
(d) Southern insurgents.

4. Who traveled to Asia and witnessed the new nationalism arising in those countries?
(a) Patrick and John Kennedy.
(b) John and Robert Kennedy.
(c) Kathleen and Margaret Eunice.
(d) Herbert and Rose Hoover.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Robert Kennedy study at Harvard?

2. What immigrants were not popular in the 1800s in America?

3. Who witnessed poverty firsthand and saw postwar devastation in Europe?

4. When Robert Kennedy began a career in the Justice Department, what was his family life like?

5. Where did the Kennedy own homes?

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