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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. Who was inaugurated on January 20, 1969?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Humphrey.
(d) Kennedy.
2. What political figure was assassinated in 1968?
(a) Hupert Humphrey.
(b) Eugene McCarthy.
(c) Robert Kennedy.
(d) John Kennedy.
3. What did the elder statesman Averell Harriman observe about Johnson in the beginning of "Vietnam"?
(a) He will be remembered as a great president.
(b) He is in over his head.
(c) He didn't do enough.
(d) He will be remembered as a poor president.
4. Who did Johnson choose to be his Vice President in the 1964 Presidential election?
(a) Robert Kennedy.
(b) John Stevenson.
(c) William Fulbright.
(d) Hubert Humphrey.
5. What did Johnson think reporters were doing in order to win Pulitzer Prizes?
(a) Discussing the progress of his Great Society programs.
(b) Sabotaging him.
(c) Writing great interviews.
(d) Writing excellent biographies about him.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of popular majority did Johnson win in 1964?
2. What Vietnamese people did Johnson want to help in the Vietnam War?
3. What were the American people most adversely affected by in 1968?
4. What two Great Society programs does the author say "succeeded admirably in achieving their objectives"?
5. What did Johnson discourage between his staffers in his first elected term as President?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Eugene McCarthy?
2. When did Johnson learn that he did not have middle America's support for his policies?
3. In what ways did Johnson assert his control over his staff and cabinet?
4. What caused Great Society programs to fail in the mid-1960s?
5. Why did Johnson stop meeting with his National Security Council when he was under siege?
6. What was the Tet offensive and how did it affect Johnson?
7. Describe the results of the Presidential Election of 1964.
8. How did Johnson respond when Robert Kennedy entered the Democratic Presidential primaries in 1967?
9. How did Johnson feel about Richard Nixon cutting his Great Society programs?
10. Why did Johnson keep the public and Congress uninformed about his actions in Vietnam in 1965?
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