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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. Who did Robert Kennedy work within New York to build a model community program?
(a) William Orrick.
(b) Joe McCarthy.
(c) Bobby Barkeley.
(d) David Hackett.

2. What did Robert Kennedy find about the comparative treatment of individuals in the court system?
(a) Those with money for bail and personal counsel usually were released.
(b) Those who were poor always rotted in jails.
(c) The ones who came from wealthy families were never prosecuted.
(d) The ones who were illiterate suffered the most.

3. Where did Hoover get most of his information about organized crime?
(a) Bugging.
(b) Videotapes.
(c) Secret observers.
(d) Infiltration.

4. What happened to Vietnam when Indochina broke up into four countries?
(a) Vietnam was assimilated into Communist China.
(b) Vietnam was divided into Communist North and Non-Communist South.
(c) Vietman was rife with anarchy.
(d) Vietnam was bombed.

5. What role was Robert F. Kenned a great choice for but hesitant to take on for fear of nepotism?
(a) Vice-President.
(b) Supreme Court Judge.
(c) President.
(d) Attorney General.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What payments were made to the Cuban dictator to release prisoners?

3. What were two measures the Attorney General Robert Kennedy took to repair inequality in the court system?

4. What discouraged Robert Kennedy during his work in the Justice Department?

5. How did Robert Kennedy secure the release American prisoners in the early 1960s?

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