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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What memorable line did the Toledo BLADE print about Taft after he decried the Nuremberg trials?
(a) He has no feeling about the soup kitchens of 1932 but supports Nazi criminals.
(b) He has a wonderful mind that knows practically everything and understands practically nothing.
(c) This is not the time to weaken the punishment of international crimes.
(d) That Taft wanted to let loose on the world a terrible gang of cutthroats.

2. Why was Ross targeted for surveillance and harassment before the Johnson trial.
(a) He was using his secret to gain political notariety.
(b) Both sides believed he was weak willed.
(c) He kept silent on how he might vote.
(d) Stanton thought he could intimidate Ross with his military connections.

3. Why did Taft speak out against the War Crimes Trials and the Nuremberg Trials?
(a) He thought the German war criminals should be tried in America.
(b) He believed the crimes were being tried under an ex post facto law which he felt was unconstitutional and un-American.
(c) He advocated letting the Isralies try the German war criminals.
(d) He had supported the Germans during WWII.

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

5. What character traits did Henry Adams consider that Lamar possessed above all others?
(a) Stubbornness and greed.
(b) Envy and averace.
(c) Tact and humor.
(d) Amiability and aimlessness.

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

7. How had President Johnson come to power?
(a) He was popularly elected President by the people.
(b) He was appointed by Congress.
(c) He had President Lincoln assassinated.
(d) He succeeded Lincoln after the assassination.

8. How did Norris attack Joe Cannon's power?
(a) Filibusters on every issue that Cannon favored.
(b) Press conferences informing the public of Cannon's abuse of power.
(c) Impeachment threats against the Speaker of the House.
(d) A resolution requiring the entire House to study and amend a resolution, rather than just allow the Speaker to appoint a committee.

9. How did Lamar view the free silver movement of 1877?
(a) He saw it as creating easy inflationary money.
(b) He was too ill to pay it much attention.
(c) He saw it as a depletion of the nation's silver.
(d) He supported it to help save Mississippi.

10. After Lamar toured Mississippi to discuss his reasons for voting the way he did, how did the people react?
(a) They held rallies against him.
(b) They recalled him from Congress.
(c) They changed their opposition to Lamar and supported him.
(d) No one came out to hear the traitor.

11. How did journalist William Preston Johnson describe the intellectual atmosphere of the Lamar family?
(a) The Lamars had amassed a huge library.
(b) The fatal dowry of genius was upon the house.
(c) They were self taught but not uneducated.
(d) There was a black thread of moodiness in all the family.

12. Who was the Democratic majority leader in the Senate who later became Vice President?
(a) Jacob Javits.
(b) Alben Barkley.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) John Nance Garner.

13. What did Robert A. Taft have in common with John Quincey Adams?
(a) They both went on to serve on the Supreme Court.
(b) They were both Quakers.
(c) They both went to the same university.
(d) Both of their fathers had served as President of the USA.

14. What act of courage marked the Presidency of Robert A. Taft's father, William Howard Taft?
(a) Denouncing Woodrow Wilson for his mishandling of WWI.
(b) Pushing for more and more farm subsidies.
(c) Forecasting that America would go to war with Germany and Japan.
(d) Standing by his Secretary of the Interior against opposition from Pinchot and Roosevelt.

15. How many tickets were printed up for seats during the Johnson Impeachment Trial?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 299.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 157.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Armed Ship Bill?

2. What does Kennedy suggest is the number of courageous Senators who have put their political lives on the line in order to speak honestly?

3. What was Lamar's main purpose in his political actions?

4. What were the circumstances that brought Edmund G. Ross to Congress as Senator from Kansas?

5. What was Lamar able to convince President Hayes to do?

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