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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the Economic Opportunity Act?
(a) Wall Street incentives.
(b) Program to train and employ the poorest people.
(c) Small banks reforms.
(d) Tax incentives for the wealthy.

3. Who was Governor of the state in which King organized a march in 1965?
(a) Wallace.
(b) Fulbright.
(c) Smith.
(d) Johnson.

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

5. Why did Johnson avoid meetings with the National Security Council in "Under Siege in the White House"?
(a) He was suspicious of leaks.
(b) He was busy with other things.
(c) The Council could never make a decision.
(d) He didn't like leaving the White House.

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

7. 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) Herb Alpert.
(b) Otis Redding.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Bee Gees.

8. What did Johnson decide to do on March 31, 1968?
(a) Re-energize the Great Society program.
(b) Change his entire cabinet.
(c) De-escalate the war and withdraw from politics.
(d) Send new legislation on Medicare to Congress.

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

10. What was the public's reaction to Robert Kennedy during his 1968 campaign for President that Johnson did not like?
(a) Hostile.
(b) Enthusiastic.
(c) Lukewarm
(d) Angry.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Johnson appoint to the Supreme Court that he thought mothers would name their newborn sons after?

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

3. What role did Robert Kennedy fill under the Johnson Administration?

4. What did Johnson think reporters were doing in order to win Pulitzer Prizes?

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

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