Profiles in Courage | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Chapter 1

1. Who said that courage is grace under pressure?

2. What do the subject of PROFILES IN COURAGE all have in common?

3. How did one reporter categorize elected officials?

4. Who suggested that Senators were vulgar demagogues?

5. In PROFILES IN COURAGE, what does John F. Kennedy fear the American public has forgotten?

6. According to Kennedy, what makes it difficult to recognize courageous acts when they do occur?

7. What does Kennedy suggest prevents a lot of people from acting courageously?

8. What is the first pressure of Americans that keeps them from acting courageously according to Kennedy?

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