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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is inaugurated in 1913?
(a) Lyndon Johnson.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) Franklin Roosevelt.
(d) Warren Harding.

2. What amendment to the U.S. constitution gives black individuals the right to vote?
(a) 15th.
(b) 1st.
(c) 19th.
(d) 13th.

3. What is the attitude of the Democratic party after LBJ heart attack?
(a) Unsupportive.
(b) Supportive.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Impatient.

4. What is Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson's (LBJ) role in the Senate in 1957?
(a) Junior Senator.
(b) Speaker.
(c) Minority Leader.
(d) Majority leader.

5. How does LBJ live his life?
(a) Optimistically.
(b) Frivolous.
(c) Day by Day.
(d) By a regimented schedule.

6. What Senate Rule limits debate based on unanimous consent agreement?
(a) Senate Rule 9.
(b) Senate Rule 11.
(c) Senate Rule 21.
(d) Senate Rule 14.

7. What is LBJ's long term political goal?
(a) Presidency.
(b) Vice President.
(c) Senior Senator.
(d) Speaker of the House.

8. Who heads the Dixiecrat Party after Russell loses as Truman's replacement?
(a) McFarland.
(b) LBJ.
(c) Strom Thurmond.
(d) Hubert Humphrey.

9. Whose death allows moderate Republicans to call for a moratorium on rhetoric?
(a) FRD.
(b) Joseph Stalin.
(c) McCarthy.
(d) Chip Bohlen.

10. Why is LBJ frustrated working in the House?
(a) He does not have enough work to do.
(b) All communications are face-to-face.
(c) There is no face-to-face work.
(d) He cannot move up politically.

11. How does the constitution originally state Senators are elected?
(a) Popular vote.
(b) By state legislatures.
(c) By the House.
(d) By the President.

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

13. What committee is LBJ offered upon entering the Senate?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Appropriations.
(c) National Security.
(d) Education.

14. What is the name of LBJ's North Korean investigation committee?
(a) The LBJ Committee.
(b) The New Truman Committee.
(c) The North Korean Committee.
(d) World Peace Committee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes LBJ's job as Majority Leader more difficult in terms of major bills and controversial issues?

2. How does LBJ respond to his medications?

3. What attracts Olds by reminding business owners of christian duties toward their workers?

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

5. Whose testimony supports the notion of the Truman Administration's policies containing communist aggression?

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