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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was inaugurated on January 20, 1969?
(a) Humphrey.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Nixon.

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

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

4. How many points did Johnson's approval rating drop between 1966 and 1968?
(a) Ten.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Thirty-six.
(d) Eighteen.

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

6. Where was President Kennedy assassinated?
(a) Florida.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Texas.
(d) California.

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

8. What were the American people most adversely affected by in 1968?
(a) Poor drinking water.
(b) Inflation.
(c) Stormy weather.
(d) Lack of organic food.

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

10. What did Johnson discourage between his staffers in his first elected term as President?
(a) Communication.
(b) Working late.
(c) Distrust.
(d) Solitary offices.

11. In "The Withdrawal," why did Johnson withdraw to the White House?
(a) To create a plan to win the war.
(b) To plot his re-election campaign.
(c) Criticism over his policies and faltering Great Society programs.
(d) Fear of Robert Kennedy.

12. What did Johnson believe he could avoid if he kept the war contained through bombing strikes?
(a) World War III.
(b) Hiring another general.
(c) Press conferences.
(d) A trip to the Far East.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What two Great Society programs does the author say "succeeded admirably in achieving their objectives"?

3. Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. organize a march in 1965?

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

5. How many American soldiers were killed when the Vietcong guerrillas raided a U.S. advisers' barracks in Pleiku on February 6, 1965?

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