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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 is the name of LBJ's North Korean investigation committee?
(a) World Peace Committee.
(b) The LBJ Committee.
(c) The New Truman Committee.
(d) The North Korean Committee.

2. What makes LBJ's job as Majority Leader more difficult in terms of major bills and controversial issues?
(a) Unanimous consent.
(b) Voting Blocs.
(c) Filibusters.
(d) Absent voting.

3. How many liberal Democrats defend Olds during his trial?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Six.
(d) Zero.

4. What is the result of LBJ's demanding work schedule?
(a) Depression.
(b) A varity of medical problems.
(c) A divorce.
(d) Death.

5. What is the result of LBJ's power in the Senate?
(a) Less legislation.
(b) Only Democratic legislation.
(c) More efficient Senate.
(d) Less controversy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does LBJ feel in the 1950s when there is little action in the Senate?

2. What is LBJ's job as the Majority Whip considered?

3. When does Olds join the American Labor Party?

4. What do the desks of the Senate look like to an observer?

5. When is General Douglas MacArthur relieved from his command in Korea?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Seventeenth Amendment effect Senators?

2. What is LBJ's big picture view of the Senate?

3. Why do the Democrats take control of Congress in 1932?

4. Why does Russell try to avoid a formal committee report of the Truman Administration hearings?

5. What is the effect of an aging Senate?

6. What is the results of Humphrey's speech on civil rights during chapter 19?

7. What does Russell JR. gain from LBJ?

8. In addition to LBJ's demanding work schedule, what other factors cause his poor health?

9. Describe the two affairs LBJ has while in the Senate.

10. When LBJ sends investigators in to the Air Force base, what do they find compared to what LBJ reports to the public?

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