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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Things Go Wrong," what does the author say Johnson hesitated over for two years before making a recommendation to Congress?
(a) Request to televise debates.
(b) Tax increase.
(c) Request for funds to rennovate the White House.
(d) Tax decrease.

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

3. Who said "The people know when you're sick and care when you die" about the Hill Country of Texas?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Lady Bird.
(c) Johnson's mother.
(d) Johnson's father.

4. What role did Robert Kennedy fill under the Johnson Administration?
(a) Supreme Court Justice.
(b) Labor Secretary.
(c) Secretary of State.
(d) Attorney General.

5. What job did Robert McNamara take in 1967?
(a) Senator.
(b) Supreme Court Justice.
(c) Curator of Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(d) Directorship of the World Bank.

6. Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. organize a march in 1965?
(a) Columbia, South Carolina.
(b) Austin, Texas.
(c) Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
(d) Washington, D.C.

7. What did Johnson compare his Great Society programs with at the beginning of "Things Go Wrong"?
(a) A king.
(b) A benevolent uncle.
(c) A massive snowball.
(d) Beautiful woman.

8. Where was Johnson on election day in 1964 when the results came in?
(a) California.
(b) White House.
(c) Virginia.
(d) At his home in Texas.

9. What did Johnson think reporters were doing in order to win Pulitzer Prizes?
(a) Sabotaging him.
(b) Writing excellent biographies about him.
(c) Writing great interviews.
(d) Discussing the progress of his Great Society programs.

10. What did President Nixon do to Johnson's Great Society programs?
(a) Gave them more funding.
(b) Refined them.
(c) Supported them all.
(d) Ended many of them.

11. Who did Johnson appoint to the Supreme Court that he thought mothers would name their newborn sons after?
(a) Warren Burger.
(b) Thurgood Marshall.
(c) William Brennan.
(d) Earl Warren.

12. What did the elder statesman Averell Harriman observe about Johnson in the beginning of "Vietnam"?
(a) He is in over his head.
(b) He didn't do enough.
(c) He will be remembered as a great president.
(d) He will be remembered as a poor president.

13. Who did Johnson say controlled the three major networks during his administration?
(a) Liberals.
(b) Conservatives.
(c) Wealthy shareholders.
(d) Kennedys and Communists.

14. What did Johnson criticize college professors for believing in "Under Siege in the White House"?
(a) Being too tough on their students.
(b) Being soft and acting nice as a way to get peace.
(c) Cancelling classes to protest along with their students.
(d) Giving their students easy As.

15. Who was Johnson's political hero?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Ike Eisenhower.
(c) John Kennedy.
(d) Franklin Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. By June, 1965, how many American troops were fighting on the ground in Vietnam?

2. In "The Withdrawal," why did Johnson withdraw to the White House?

3. Who was inaugurated on January 20, 1969?

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

5. What was Richard McNamara's title in the Johnson Administration in 1966?

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