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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 two issues had Lyndon B. Johnson failed to address adequately as President?
(a) Ending the war and poverty.
(b) Environmental degradation and hunger strikes.
(c) Civil rights and civil unions.
(d) Communist and despotic foreign governments.

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

3. What did Robert Kennedy find out when he traveled to Latin America?
(a) Latin America was under heavy bombardment.
(b) The people were wildly enthusiastic about his arrival.
(c) The Latin American people were violently oppressed by dictators.
(d) The people resented American support of despotic governments simply for being anti-Communist.

4. What was Robert Kennedy's margin when he won a Senate seat in New York?
(a) 700 votes.
(b) 800 votes.
(c) 8,000 votes.
(d) 700,000 votes.

5. Who assisted in secret negotiations with Castro?
(a) John Donovan.
(b) Mikhail Gorbachev.
(c) Khruschev.
(d) Vladimir Putin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Robert Kennedy promise to third-world countries?

2. What policy did the U.S. government take in 1962-3 towards preventing the spread of Communism abroad?

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

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

5. Who resigned as Attorney General in 1964?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Robert Kennedy think were the most important issues facing America?

3. What did Robert Kennedy do to improve American foreign policy in 1963?

4. What was happening in Indochina in the 1960s?

5. Why did America's reputation suffer in the early 1960s?

6. What difficult decision did Robert Kennedy take after the Tet Offensive?

7. What did Robert Kennedy warn the U.S. government about in Latin America?

8. How did the role of the Alliance for Progress change under the Johnson administration?

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

10. How did Robert Kennedy differ from Lyndon B. Johnson on national issues?

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