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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does LBJ demand of his staff?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Compassion for others.
(c) 10 bills per month written.
(d) Overtime.

2. How do the Southern Senators view Humphrey when he first arrives in the Senate?
(a) A child.
(b) A colleague.
(c) A force to be reckoned with.
(d) A civil rights foe.

3. According to Newsweek, how many bills are passed one day in four hours, and 43 minutes?
(a) 75.
(b) 150.
(c) 90.
(d) 25.

4. Whose testimony supports the notion of the Truman Administration's policies containing communist aggression?
(a) Marshall.
(b) MacArthur.
(c) Olds.
(d) Russell.

5. What leads to the decline of the Senate's effectiveness and prestige?
(a) Lack of interest.
(b) Seniority in committees.
(c) Demanding presidents.
(d) Corruption.

6. Why does McCarthy leave the Senate?
(a) He is impeached.
(b) He dies.
(c) He is not re-elected.
(d) He gets sick.

7. What election does Richard Bevard Russell Jr. win in 1930?
(a) Governor of Georgia.
(b) Mayor.
(c) Vice President.
(d) Senate.

8. What seemingly impenetrable group does LBJ need support form to reach the White House?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Steel workers.
(c) Democrats.
(d) Southern Bloc.

9. How many siblings does LBJ have?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

10. When does Olds join the American Labor Party?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1936.

11. What is the vote in the Olds' case?
(a) 53-15.
(b) 15-53.
(c) Unanimous against Olds.
(d) Unanimous for Olds.

12. What term refers to a body of laws proposed to enforce segregation?
(a) Re-Segregation.
(b) Ninth Amendment.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) Southern Bloc.

13. What does Olds do after his time in politics?
(a) Sets up a consulting firm.
(b) Retires.
(c) Works in a steel factory.
(d) Files bankruptcy.

14. When is LBJ sworn in as a Senator?
(a) January 3, 1949.
(b) January 3, 1950.
(c) January 3, 1943.
(d) January 3, 1948.

15. Why does Morse side with the Democrats in 1954?
(a) He is tired of the Republicans.
(b) He wants a seat on the Argiculture Committee.
(c) He wants a seat on the Foreign Relations Committee.
(d) He wants to run for Minority Leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is LBJ's life quest or goal?

2. What is the Vice President's role in the Senate?

3. Who refuses to compromise the seniority system when LBJ wants to put a freshmen Senators in key committees?

4. What is LBJ's job as the Majority Whip considered?

5. What does Richard Bevard Russell Jr. become known as after his father's death?

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