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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Vietnamese people did Johnson want to help in the Vietnam War?
(a) Viet Cong.
(b) South Vietnamese.
(c) North Vietnamese.
(d) Communists of Hanoi.

2. How many American soldiers were killed when the Vietcong guerrillas raided a U.S. advisers' barracks in Pleiku on February 6, 1965?
(a) Nine.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Two.
(d) Thirty.

3. Who did Johnson think would want to end the war quickly through total annihilation?
(a) Defense Secretary.
(b) CIA.
(c) Conservatives in Congress.
(d) Generals.

4. What did Johnson ask of Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois in "The Transition Year"?
(a) To come to the White House for dinner and conversation.
(b) To help him with his speech to Congress.
(c) To ask other senators about their interests.
(d) His support on civil rights legislation.

5. How did Johnson characterize the young people who were protesting the war?
(a) Disrespectful.
(b) Stupid.
(c) Lazy.
(d) As naive.

6. In 1968, what was the number of casualties in the Vietnam war?
(a) Two thousand.
(b) Sixty thousand.
(c) Twenty thousand.
(d) One hundred thirty thousand.

7. What did most people consider Barry Goldwater to be, according to the author in "The Transition Year"?
(a) Moderate.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Independent.
(d) Right winger.

8. According to the author in "The Great Society," what did Johnson equate predictability with?
(a) Boredom.
(b) Weakness.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Power.

9. What issue was the march that King organized originally focused on?
(a) Raising funding for churches.
(b) Minority voter rights and registration.
(c) Economic relief.
(d) Food aid.

10. What does Tet mean in Vietnamese?
(a) Beginning again.
(b) Political choices.
(c) War.
(d) New Year.

11. What did Johnson feel like when he took over the office of President after Kennedy's assassination?
(a) The best person for the job.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Illegitimate.
(d) Righteous.

12. What was one popular singer in the late 1960s that the young people of the peace movement listened to, according to the author in "Under Siege in the White House"?
(a) Bee Gees.
(b) Herb Alpert.
(c) Otis Redding.
(d) Bob Dylan.

13. Where did Johnson fly to in order to sign the Medicare Act in 1965?
(a) Austin, Texas.
(b) Independence, Missouri.
(c) Baltimore, Maryland.
(d) Reston, Virginia.

14. By June, 1965, how many American troops were fighting on the ground in Vietnam?
(a) Six thousand.
(b) Eleven thousand.
(c) One hundred thousand.
(d) Fifty thousand

15. What did Johnson propose in a televised speech before Congress immediately following the King march in 1965?
(a) Minority voting rights legislation.
(b) Creation of college loan program.
(c) Prayer in schools.
(d) Equal pay for equal work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Johnson's political hero?

2. In "Things Go Wrong," what does the author say Johnson hesitated over for two years before making a recommendation to Congress?

3. How many social programs were created under Johnson's leadership between 1965 and 1968?

4. In "Vietnam," what does the author say that Johnson wanted to set up in Vietnam after suppressing the war?

5. Who told Johnson that if he didn't run for President it would show a lack of courage and be wrong for the country?

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