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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Robert Kennedy get a position because of his father's influence?
(a) Senate.
(b) Attorney General's office.
(c) Senate Investigations Committee.
(d) House of Representatives.

2. What disastrous incident failed miserably in Cuba and resulted in the death of numerous invading troops?
(a) Capturing the citadel.
(b) Bay of Pigs.
(c) Hasta Luego.
(d) Port de Santiago.

3. Where did Robert Kennedy research poverty?
(a) Urban ghettos.
(b) In a law firm.
(c) In the library.
(d) In the courtroom.

4. Whose Senate campaign did Robert Kennedy manage?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Kathleen McAllister.
(c) Rose Hoover.
(d) Margaret Eunice.

5. Why did Robert Kennedy spearhead covert negotiations with Castro?
(a) To gain the release of American prisoners.
(b) For access to Soviet missiles.
(c) For building a defense base.
(d) For access to drugs.

6. Who placed nuclear missiles on Cuban soil in the 1960s?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Robert Kennedy.
(c) Soviet President Khrushchev.
(d) Joe McCarthy.

7. What discouraged Robert Kennedy during his work in the Justice Department?
(a) Violation of civil rights.
(b) Joe McCarthy's popularity.
(c) His inability to obtain indictments of the big players in labor and management corruption.
(d) Death of his brother.

8. What did the Asian countries yearn to be free of?
(a) Southern insurgents.
(b) Violent anarchists.
(c) European imperialism.
(d) Communist influence.

9. What was on the mind of Americans when John Kennedy was elected as President?
(a) World War II.
(b) Post-industrial boom.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Cold War.

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

11. What party did Adlai Stevenson belong to?
(a) Progressive.
(b) Republican.
(c) Independent.
(d) Democratic.

12. With whom did Robert Kennedy travel in the 1950s to the Soviet Union?
(a) Jimmy Hoffa.
(b) Joe McCarthy.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Justice Douglas.

13. What immigrants were not popular in the 1800s in America?
(a) Irish.
(b) German.
(c) English.
(d) French.

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

15. Who was murdered during the admittance of black students into college in Alabama?
(a) Robert Brown.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) George Wallace.
(d) Medger Evans.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Hoover attempt to gain convictions of leftists?

2. After the landmark anti-trust case, what distinction occurred between the two political parties?

3. What three organizations did Robert Kennedy enlist support from?

4. Which son died in an explosion over France during the 1950s?

5. What was a major area of contention between Hoover and Robert Kennedy?

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