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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30-33: The Foreign Policy Breach: Latin America; Vietnam Legacy; The Breach Widens: Vietnam; The Breach Widens: South Africa, New York.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did America have to do to prevent the rise of Communism?
(a) Install a puppet regime in Indochina.
(b) Lead insurgent armies.
(c) Become more involved in world affairs.
(d) Give away land.

2. Who did Robert Kennedy appoint to investigate anti-trust violations?
(a) David Hackett.
(b) William Orrick.
(c) Joseph Smith.
(d) Bob Barkett.

3. Who embarked upon a witch hunt to expel Communists from America?
(a) Joe McCarthy.
(b) Jimmy Hoffa.
(c) John Kennedy.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

4. What services did the model community program offer in New York?
(a) Crisis intervention and conflict resolution.
(b) Early childhood intervention, vocational training, employment, day care, and legal services.
(c) Education and foster homes.
(d) Access to food, clean beds, and clean clothes.

5. What was a difficult decision that the Attorney General Robert Kennedy faced during judicial prosecutions?
(a) Compromising with Catholics.
(b) Indicting Democrats who had been loyal supporters of the Kennedy family.
(c) Fighting insurgents.
(d) Facing corruption in their own family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the policy of diplomacy ascribed to by Robert and John Kennedy?

2. Why did John Kennedy travel to Texas in November 1963?

3. Who was exempted from the mandatory 70-year old retirement in 1964?

4. What did Robert Kennedy think were the two reasons for juvenile delinquency?

5. What did many Democrats want Robert Kennedy to do in 1964?

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