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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Great society.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Johnson in the hospital for a few days before his election as a United States Senator?
(a) Broken leg.
(b) High blood pressure.
(c) Kidney Stones.
(d) Heart attack.

2. What subcommittee began investigations on the space exploration program in 1957?
(a) Finance Subcommittee.
(b) Presidential Committee on Aerospace Programs.
(c) Advisory Board.
(d) Subcommittee on Preparedness.

3. Who gave Lady Bird her nickname?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Rebekah Johnson.
(c) Her father.
(d) Johnson.

4. When Johnson was fifteen, what did he dream he was enclosed in?
(a) Basement.
(b) Box.
(c) Small cage.
(d) Closet.

5. Why was Johnson in the hospital the day after he was elected to Congress in 1937?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Visiting a friend.
(c) Visiting his mother.
(d) Appendicitis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Governor of the state in which King organized a march in 1965?

2. According to the author in "The Great Society," what did Johnson equate predictability with?

3. What word did Johnson's mother often scrawl on the outside of letters to her son?

4. What department did Professor Harry Greene work in at the college Johnson went to?

5. What kind of food did Johnson discover that John Kennedy loved and then stocked his plane with it?

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