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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. What operation launched by the CIA in Cuba also met with disastrous results?
(a) Fidel Capture.
(b) Operation Mongoose.
(c) Bay of Pigs.
(d) Khruschev Initiative.

2. What did Robert Kennedy vehemently oppose as it escalated by 1967?
(a) Alliance for Progress.
(b) Soviet invasion.
(c) Cuban Missile Crisis.
(d) Vietnam War.

3. How many American troops were in Vietnam in 1968?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 525,000.
(d) 100,000.

4. Which segment of the American population began to support Robert Kennedy's view of the war in 1967?
(a) Ivy League graduates.
(b) Richest Americans.
(c) Middle class.
(d) Poorest Americans.

5. What two different sides of Robert Kennedy emerged in 1968?
(a) Powerful ally and weak parent.
(b) Ruthless dictator and compassionate leader.
(c) Idealist and realist.
(d) Good cop and bad cop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gained popularity in Vietnam in the 1960s?

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

3. When John Kennedy stood for reelection, what was the country enamored by?

4. Where did many migrant workers in America during the late 1960s live?

5. What did Robert Kennedy warn against in Latin America when Johnson became President?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was happening to the American people as the Vietnam War dragged on?

2. What happened during the 1963 election campaign that devastated Robert Kennedy?

3. How did Robert Kennedy differ from the American military community in his view of what the country needed to focus on for peace and prosperity?

4. Robert Kennedy emerged as a champion of the rights of certain people. Who were they?

5. What did Robert Kennedy discover when he traveled abroad?

6. Where did Robert Kennedy put his attention in 1967?

7. What did Kennedy do to ease tensions with Cuba?

8. Where did Cesar Chavez take Robert Kennedy, and what effect did it have on Kennedy?

9. What did Robert Kennedy think about the war in Vietnam?

10. After Robert Kennedy left the government, what changes happened in the Justice Department?

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