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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 34-35: Time of Troubles; Tribune of the Underclass.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose prosecution by Attorney General Robert Kennedy caused the ire of Lyndon B. Johnson?
(a) J. Vincent Keoh.
(b) Bobby Baker.
(c) George Wallace.
(d) Eunice Kennedy.

2. What did Robert Kennedy see on reservations in the 1960s?
(a) Hopelessness.
(b) Prosperity.
(c) Large casinos.
(d) Industry.

3. What did the American public grow alarmed about in 1967?
(a) The rising cost of inflation.
(b) Poverty.
(c) The cost of the war in terms of money and human lives.
(d) Education.

4. What was one of Robert Kennedy's early disappointments with the Johnson administration?
(a) Failure to remove extremists.
(b) Change in purpose of the Alliance for Progress.
(c) Inability to stop civil unrest.
(d) Failure to remove poverty.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the problems of Latin America replicated in the 1960s?

2. What was the name of the insurgent guerrilla force in southern Vietnam in the 1960s?

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

4. What change occurred in the Investigations Committee as a direct result of John F. Kennedy's Senate move?

5. Where did the Kennedy own homes?

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