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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. How did Johnson define the term "Great Society"?
(a) Tax progams.
(b) Art and Culture programs.
(c) Social reform programs.
(d) Space exploration progams.

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

6. What did Johnson take control of with each department during his first elected term as President?
(a) Cultural events.
(b) Dress code.
(c) Budget and staffing.
(d) Restaurant choices.

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

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

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

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

11. What did Johnson ask of Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois in "The Transition Year"?
(a) To ask other senators about their interests.
(b) His support on civil rights legislation.
(c) To come to the White House for dinner and conversation.
(d) To help him with his speech to Congress.

12. How many people were killed in the Watts riots in Los Angeles?
(a) Two hundred twenty-five.
(b) Six hundred.
(c) Ten.
(d) One hundred.

13. What 1960s movie did the author watch with Johnson at his ranch in Texas that Johnson disliked?
(a) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
(b) Cool Hand Luke.
(c) Bonnie and Clyde.
(d) The Graduate.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Johnson discourage between his staffers in his first elected term as President?

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

3. Who was Johnson's political hero?

4. What did Johnson feel like when he took over the office of President after Kennedy's assassination?

5. What does Tet mean in Vietnamese?

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