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

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

3. Whose Senate campaign did Robert Kennedy manage?
(a) Margaret Eunice.
(b) Kathleen McAllister.
(c) Rose Hoover.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

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

5. Who married a banking millionaire and had nine children?
(a) Rose Fitzgerald.
(b) Joseph Kennedy.
(c) Eunice Hoover.
(d) Joseph McCarthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Robert Kennedy get a position because of his father's influence?

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

3. What were the two major issues surrounding the John F. Kennedy bid for the presidency?

4. Who was President of the Teamsters Union?

5. Whose Vice-Presidential bid failed in 1956?

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