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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Johnson call Robert Kennedy in "The Withdrawal"?
(a) Confused.
(b) His worst nightmare.
(c) A good choice for President.
(d) His closest adviser.

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

4. 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) Thirty.
(d) Two.

5. As administrator of the Great Society, how big was the bureaucracy that Johnson presided over?
(a) Nine thousand employees.
(b) One million employees.
(c) Two thousand employees.
(d) Six million employees.

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

7. Where did Johnson announce his withdrawal as a candidate for President?
(a) Speech in California.
(b) Before Congress.
(c) White House televised speech.
(d) Democratic National Convention.

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

9. What did Johnson ask each member of Kennedy's cabinet after Kennedy's assassination?
(a) To give an oath of secrecy.
(b) To leave at the beginning of the new year.
(c) To leave so he could put in his own staff.
(d) To stay on out of loyalty to Kennedy.

10. What political figure was assassinated in 1968?
(a) John Kennedy.
(b) Hupert Humphrey.
(c) Robert Kennedy.
(d) Eugene McCarthy.

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

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

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

14. 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) Bob Dylan.
(c) Herb Alpert.
(d) Otis Redding.

15. What did the North Vietnamese do during the Tet offensive?
(a) Attacked cities in the South thought to be safe from war.
(b) Submitted to the South Vietnamese.
(c) Guarded their positions in the north.
(d) Agreed to a cease fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. In June 1965, what was Johnson insisting upon about America's involvement in Vietnam?

2. How did Johnson define the term "Great Society"?

3. Where did Johnson fly to in order to sign the Medicare Act in 1965?

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

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

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