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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What country was Ho Chi Minh the leader of in 1965?
(a) East Vietnam.
(b) North Vietnam.
(c) South Vietnam.
(d) West Vietnam.

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Mekong river?

2. What did the press report about the war in Vietnam?

3. Who did Johnson think would want to end the war quickly through total annihilation?

4. What did Johnson propose in a televised speech before Congress immediately following the King march in 1965?

5. What did Johnson take control of with each department during his first elected term as President?

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