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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 39-41: The Journey Begins; The Long Day Wanes; To Sail Beyond...the Western Stars, Until I Die.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What became the new policy of the Johnson administration toward Latin America in the 1960s?
(a) Support U.S. corporations doing business there.
(b) Overthrow governments.
(c) Eradicate poverty.
(d) Create democracy.

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

3. 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.

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

5. What did Robert Kennedy warn against in Latin America when Johnson became President?
(a) The growth of Communism.
(b) The popularity of oligarchical leaders.
(c) The violent revolution sponsored by the Johnson administration.
(d) The decline of Castro.

Short Answer Questions

1. What operation launched by the CIA in Cuba also met with disastrous results?

2. Who told the American public that the Americans were winning in Vietnam in 1968?

3. Who had terrifying power as the head of the FBI?

4. What did Johnson want to use Robert Kennedy for?

5. What did Robert Kennedy find unbearable in the 1960s?

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