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

2. What did Robert Kennedy think was the source of all the nation's ills?
(a) Religious feuds.
(b) Disease.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Ignorance.

3. What was the old practice of American politics?
(a) Political decisions were made in small rooms, and "bosses" controlled who ran for office.
(b) Young people were energized to mobilize powerful political campaigns.
(c) The Italian mob controlled all political decision-making.
(d) Fathers gave sons jobs.

4. Who did Robert Kennedy secretly negotiate a truce with that ended the Cuban missile crisis?
(a) Castro and McCarthy.
(b) Dobrynin and Bolshakov.
(c) Hoover and Castro.
(d) Stalin and Khruschev.

5. Who was the first Black justice official appointed by the Attorney General?
(a) Robert McAllister.
(b) Burke Marshall.
(c) George Wallace.
(d) Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was President of the Teamsters Union?

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

3. What was on the mind of Americans when John Kennedy was elected as President?

4. What region of the world resented American interference to assist French armed forces?

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

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