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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What were the two major issues surrounding the John F. Kennedy bid for the presidency?
(a) War and anarchy.
(b) Catholicism and civil rights.
(c) Communism and labor rights.
(d) Socialism and green economics.

3. Who died in a plane crash when Robert Kennedy married?
(a) Rosemary Eunice.
(b) Rose Hoover.
(c) Ethel Skakel.
(d) Kathleen Kennedy.

4. What did Robert Kennedy think was the source of all the nation's ills?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Religious feuds.
(c) Disease.
(d) Ignorance.

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

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

7. What favorite activity of Hoover's did Kennedy severely limit?
(a) Investigative reporting.
(b) Wiretapping.
(c) Forced imprisonment.
(d) Concentration camps.

8. Which organization worked outside the confines and control of any governmental branch or agency?
(a) CIA.
(b) Pentagon.
(c) Civil rights.
(d) FBI.

9. Who scared away most witnesses from testifying against him?
(a) Joe McCarthy.
(b) Jimmy Hoffa.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Walter Reuther.

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

11. Who was a staunch Democrat in an era of Republican dominance?
(a) Walter Reuther.
(b) Joe McCarthy.
(c) Jimmy Hoffa.
(d) Jason Fried.

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

13. What was a major area of contention between Hoover and Robert Kennedy?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Communists.

14. What organizations had numerous opponents to John Kennedy's foreign policy?
(a) Pentagon and CIA.
(b) World Bank and IMF.
(c) NRA and CIA.
(d) FBI and Justice Department.

15. Who did John F. Kennedy run against in the 1960 presidential primary?
(a) Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey.
(b) Joe McCarthy and Walter Reuther.
(c) Communists and Socialists.
(d) Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Attorney General Robert Kennedy discover during the process of judicial appointments?

2. What did staunch conservatives want John F. Kennedy to do regarding foreign policy?

3. Which two offices did the FBI director covertly oppose?

4. Whose Senate campaign did Robert Kennedy manage?

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

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