Profiles in Courage Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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Profiles in Courage Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What questionable arrangement kept Webster in the Senate when he was about to resign?
(a) Businesses who benefited from his help paid off his debts so he could remain in the senate.
(b) Webster lied under oath in a Senate hearing.
(c) Webster appointed his relatives to Senate jobs.
(d) Webster was offered a bfribe which he nearly accepted.

2. How many other Republicans lost their careers by standing with Ross against the impeachment of President Johnson?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Ten.
(d) Fourteen.

3. What characteristic of Sen. Taft did Kennedy suggest might best be judged after many years?
(a) How he managed to appear charming when he was destroying an enemy.
(b) How he refrained from speaking his mind on controversial political issure.
(c) How he inspired loyal devotees as well as bitter enemies.
(d) How he accepted Socialist philosophy.

4. What opinion did Taft share with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas?
(a) That the Axis war crimes trials went against every principle of American justice.
(b) That the Constitution of the USA allowed for ex post facto prosecutions.
(c) That the Axis war crimes trials did not try the real offenders.
(d) That the Axis prisoners should not be allowed representation by lawyers.

5. What was Ross' military experience?
(a) The Kansas Free State Army and the Union Army.
(b) The Republic of Texas Army and the Union Army.
(c) The Ohio Militia and the Confederate Army.
(d) The Union Army and the Union Navy.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom was Ross compared in a Kansas newspaper editorial?

2. How did Webster view the Compromise of 1850 in terms of his anti-slavery convictions?

3. How had President Johnson come to power?

4. What famous piece of legislation bears Robert A. Taft's name?

5. How did Ross describe his feelings just before he cast his not guilty vote?

(see the answer key)

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