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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does LBJ say about opposing Eisenhower's Foreign policy?
(a) It is American.
(b) It is suicide.
(c) It boosts a Senator's career.
(d) It is shameful.

2. How does LBJ feel in the 1950s when there is little action in the Senate?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Bored.
(c) Ostracized.
(d) Powerful.

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

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

5. Who heads the Senate?
(a) Secretary.
(b) Speaker.
(c) President.
(d) Vice President.

6. What Senator is rumored to be a homosexual?
(a) Chip Bohlen.
(b) LBJ.
(c) Russell.
(d) McCarthy.

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

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

9. How many liberal Democrats defend Olds during his trial?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Zero.
(d) Five.

10. What liberal Senator does LBJ attempt to befriend when leaders run into difficulties bringing the liberals and conservatives together?
(a) Estes Kefauver.
(b) Hubert Humphrey.
(c) McFarland.
(d) Walter George.

11. Who wants the information that LBJ gathers regarding votes?
(a) The House of Representatives.
(b) The White House.
(c) Other Senators.
(d) No one.

12. Who refuses to compromise the seniority system when LBJ wants to put a freshmen Senators in key committees?
(a) Russell.
(b) Kefauver.
(c) Walter Magnuson.
(d) McCarthy.

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

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

15. What does FDR use to maintain support of the public?
(a) Radio fireside chats.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Fear.
(d) Kindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many southern votes does Russell control during the 1952 election?

2. Why does Morse side with the Democrats in 1954?

3. What do northern Senators feel the seniority system excludes?

4. What do the desks of the Senate look like to an observer?

5. Who does LBJ choose to work on his North Korean investigation committee?

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