View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Things Go Wrong.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of popular majority did Johnson win in 1964?
(a) Equal to Roosevelt.
(b) Less than Kennedy.
(c) Smallest ever.
(d) Greatest ever.

2. What legislation passed on August 20, 1964?
(a) The Poverty Reduction Act.
(b) Massive tax cut.
(c) Education reform.
(d) Economic Opportunity Act.

3. When did Johnson resume his position in the Senate after his illness in 1955?
(a) January 2, 1956.
(b) January 30, 1955.
(c) February 12, 1958.
(d) February 5, 1956.

4. What was the Economic Opportunity Act?
(a) Small banks reforms.
(b) Tax incentives for the wealthy.
(c) Program to train and employ the poorest people.
(d) Wall Street incentives.

5. How many social programs were created under Johnson's leadership between 1965 and 1968?
(a) Five hundred.
(b) Eighty.
(c) One thousand.
(d) Twenty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What grade did Johnson give himself as a Vice President?

2. What were the American people most adversely affected by in 1968?

3. What role did Robert Kennedy fill under the Johnson Administration?

4. What did most people consider Barry Goldwater to be, according to the author in "The Transition Year"?

5. Where was Johnson on election day in 1964 when the results came in?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 192 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample