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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which son died in an explosion over France during the 1950s?
(a) Patrick F.
(b) Joe Jr.
(c) Robert F.
(d) John F.
2. What apathetic division of the Justice department did Robert Kennedy try to change?
(a) The criminal justice division.
(b) The social services division.
(c) The anti-trust division.
(d) The special services division.
3. Which organization worked outside the confines and control of any governmental branch or agency?
(a) Pentagon.
(b) Civil rights.
(c) FBI.
(d) CIA.
4. With whom did Robert Kennedy travel in the 1950s to the Soviet Union?
(a) Jimmy Hoffa.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Justice Douglas.
(d) Joe McCarthy.
5. What two national issues gave the FBI director prominence?
(a) Global genocide and environmental catastrophes.
(b) Communism and Naziism.
(c) War and starvation.
(d) Civil unrest and anarchy.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who did Robert Kennedy marry?
2. What dilemma faced the Justice Department when civil rights leaders in the South were brutalized?
3. Under what president had the Pentagon grown very popular prior to John Kennedy assuming office?
4. Who was prosecuted by the Attorney General Robert Kennedy for taking a bribe?
5. Which child of the Kennedy clan had a mental disease?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the FBI function during the 1960s when John F. Kennedy came to power?
2. Whose appointment as an Assistant Attorney General invoked rage, and what was the immediate consequence of this action?
3. How did the American government react to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
4. What did Robert Kennedy discover about juvenile delinquency in urban ghettos?
5. How did Robert Kennedy unknowingly restrict Hoover's secret techniques for investigation?
6. Describe what Robert Kennedy did to rectify unfair standards for the poor in America's justice system?
7. Describe being an American of Irish origin in the 1800s.
8. What was the direct political result of Robert Kennedy's investigation of the six steel companies in the anti-trust case?
9. What action taken by Soviet leader Khrushchev immediately caused a red alert for American security?
10. What action did Robert Kennedy take to enforce the 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision in the south?
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