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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As administrator of the Great Society, how big was the bureaucracy that Johnson presided over?

2. What did Congress and the Cabinet inform Johnson that he had to change in 1968?

3. Who was Johnson's political hero?

4. What did the elder statesman Averell Harriman observe about Johnson in the beginning of "Vietnam"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Johnson's approach to dealing with the media as President?

2. How did inflation and the war affect Johnson's approval ratings between 1966 and 1968?

3. What was the Tet offensive and how did it affect Johnson?

4. What did Johnson say was the reason he could not let the Communists take over the South Vietnam?

5. Why did pilots find it difficult to find targets during the Vietnam war?

6. In what ways did Johnson assert his control over his staff and cabinet?

7. What was Johnson's first reaction to the Watts, Los Angeles riots in August, 1965?

8. Who was Eugene McCarthy?

9. How did Johnson respond when Robert Kennedy entered the Democratic Presidential primaries in 1967?

10. What caused Great Society programs to fail in the mid-1960s?

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