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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In terms of service in office of both father and son, what similarity set them apart from presidents before and after them?
(a) Neither father nor son served out a full term in office.
(b) Neither father nor son served a second term in office.
(c) Both father and son served three terms in office.
(d) Both father and son served during wartime.

2. How did one reporter categorize elected officials?
(a) That people elected them on their looks.
(b) That people thought everything they said was untrue.
(c) That they needed to be good public speakers.
(d) That they were gluttons for mental punishment.

3. Who was the first son of a former president to become president of the U.S.?
(a) Geroge Washington Carver.
(b) Andrew Jefferson.
(c) John Quincey Adams.
(d) Thomas Alva Edison.

4. What is Kennedy's third pressure that he feels is the most damaging?
(a) Making decisions that will satisfy everyone in one way or another.
(b) Making decisions when to satisfy a constituancy will not be what is best for the nation.
(c) Making decisions when a fellow Senator or Congressman needs to get a pet project going.
(d) Making decisions when you do not have enough information to make good ones.

5. In PROFILES IN COURAGE, what does John F. Kennedy fear the American public has forgotten?
(a) How to tell if a man is honest.
(b) Where to look for courage in a politician.
(c) The basic principles our country was founded on.
(d) What courage actually is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advantage do minority special interest groups have to influence elected officials?

2. What is the example of some advice Kennedy received when he first became a Congressman?

3. How does Kennedy characterize the difficult position of the elected official?

4. For what prestigious university did Adams once work as a professor?

5. What was the dichotomy concerning John Quincey Adams' father?

(see the answer key)

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