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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kennedy sees as a weakness in John Quincey Adams an emotional attachment to whom?
(a) His parents and God.
(b) His college friends and professors.
(c) His wife and his mistress.
(d) His religious congregational members.

2. What action by Texas brought about the end of Houston's career?
(a) Seceeding from the Confederacy and impeaching Sam Houston.
(b) Secession from the Union and demanding a vow of loyalty to Texas as a member of the Confederacy..
(c) Voting to declare war on the North and sending troups and money to the Confederacy.
(d) Voting to return to its independent state as the Republic of Texas.

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) Thomas Alva Edison.
(d) John Quincey Adams.

4. What is an irony of Benton's opposition to the slave states?
(a) He refused to go against his own party.
(b) He owned slaves himself.
(c) He opposed abolition.
(d) He was a descendent of a slave.

5. Why was it considered a contradiction when Houston supported temperance?
(a) His political supporters opposed temperance.
(b) He owned a brewery.
(c) He made his money in rum running.
(d) He was a heavy drinker.

6. What was the dichotomy concerning John Quincey Adams' father?
(a) Adams had raised his son to do what he believed to be right and that meant opposing his father.
(b) Adams was not religious but his son, John Quincey, was a devout Puritan.
(c) Adams was a stern father but a political liberal.
(d) Adams raised his son to always do as his father did regardless of what he thought personally.

7. What metaphoric comparison does Kennedy make to John Quincey Adams' Puritanism?
(a) A mighty ship in a storm.
(b) Kennedy's Catholicism.
(c) The east coast, craggy, rocky, somber and strong.
(d) A conflict of interests.

8. John Quincey Adams was a Senator from what state?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Connecticutt.
(c) Virginia.
(d) New York.

9. What Webster speech in the Senate became known by the date it was given?
(a) The Christmas Day speech.
(b) The First of January speech.
(c) The Seventh of March speech.
(d) The Independence Day speech.

10. Where did Benton say he's rather see the Democratic Party rather than give one inch to Mr. Van Buren?
(a) A thousand miles north of the Mason Dixon Line.
(b) Right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
(c) 50 fathoms deep into the middle of hell fire.
(d) Out of politics altogether.

11. What measure did Henry Clay enlist Webster to help with?
(a) The Great Compromise of 1850.
(b) Clay's bid for re-election.
(c) Speaches warning about Abraham Lincoln's political ambitions.
(d) Re-writing the Bill of Rights to include slavery.

12. What does Kennedy see as Webster's moral flaw?
(a) Webster had no compunction against taking money for political favors.
(b) Webster had many affairs his wife did not know about.
(c) Webster was a compulsive gambler.
(d) Webster was an alcoholic and often lost track of time.

13. How did Daniel Webster describe and define himself?
(a) As a citizen of the world.
(b) As a debator who loved to take any opposing view.
(c) Not as a Massachusetts man but as an American.
(d) As a free thinker opposed to the Union.

14. How did Webster view the Compromise of 1850 in terms of his anti-slavery convictions?
(a) He wanted to bring the prospect of Civil War to a head.
(b) He believed that compromise would eventually lead to abolition.
(c) He thought it would give him power to run for President.
(d) He viewed it as a short-term compromise.

15. What act of inconsistency brought his Missouri constituents to brand him a traitor?
(a) His willingness to allow the country to go to war.
(b) His opposition to annexting Texas.
(c) His opposition to the Missouri Compromise.
(d) His voting with the Republicans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What leader who was at odds with Adams' father did John Quincey find himself agreeing with quite often?

2. Besides the Texas territory which Benton opposed, what other one did he support against his party's stand?

3. Whom did the Adams family say that the magistrate must serve?

4. For what conflict does Kennedy feel the most empathy?

5. Why was Webster a leader in the North prior to the Civil War?

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