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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-22: The Kennedys and the Cold War; the CIA and Counterinsurgency; The Cuban Connection: I; Robert Kennedy and the Missile Crisis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Robert Kennedy think were the two reasons for juvenile delinquency?
(a) Education and community involvement.
(b) Safety and cleanliness.
(c) Nutrition and sleep.
(d) Lack of opportunity and access to a middle class life.

2. Who was murdered during the admittance of black students into college in Alabama?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Robert Brown.
(c) George Wallace.
(d) Medger Evans.

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

4. What organization was created to support American foreign policy in the 1960s?
(a) IMF.
(b) Peace Corps.
(c) World Council on Hunger.
(d) United Nations.

5. What were two measures the Attorney General Robert Kennedy took to repair inequality in the court system?
(a) He removed the need for lawyers and bail in all cases.
(b) He encouraged rehabilitation and separating the youth from hardened criminals.
(c) He encouraged the use of death penalty and waterboarding.
(d) He built bigger, stronger prisons.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who placed nuclear missiles on Cuban soil in the 1960s?

3. What was a difficult decision that the Attorney General Robert Kennedy faced during judicial prosecutions?

4. Where did Robert Kennedy research poverty?

5. Where did Hoover get most of his information about organized crime?

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