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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is LBJ's goal for the 1951?
(a) President.
(b) Win the Republican vote.
(c) Write a new war bill.
(d) A cover spread in Newsweek.

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

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

4. How do the two houses of congress treat the Great Depression?
(a) Top priority.
(b) With care.
(c) Business as usual.
(d) The opportunity to gain power.

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

6. How does LBJ's personality fit into the Senate?
(a) He acts like the other Senators.
(b) He is less confident than other Senators.
(c) It is a major contrast.
(d) He is over eager.

7. What are the years from 1891-1859 considered in the Senate?
(a) The Glory of the Senate.
(b) The Golden Years.
(c) The Dark Years.
(d) The Guilded Age.

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

9. Who does LBJ help to be named Assistant Democratic Cloakroom for the purpose of gaining information?
(a) FDR.
(b) Dean Acheson.
(c) Richard Russell.
(d) Bobby Baker.

10. 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.

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

12. What does Richard Bevard Russell Jr. become known as after his father's death?
(a) Uncle Sam.
(b) Head of the House.
(c) Grandfather Dick.
(d) Uncle Dick.

13. What makes LBJ's job as Majority Leader more difficult in terms of major bills and controversial issues?
(a) Unanimous consent.
(b) Absent voting.
(c) Filibusters.
(d) Voting Blocs.

14. Who is expected to be the Republican Presidential candidate in 1952?
(a) LBJ.
(b) Truman.
(c) MacArthur.
(d) Russell.

15. What does LBJ's brother, Sam, do to help his situation in terms of his career?
(a) He boasts that LBJ is ready and ambitious.
(b) He lies about LBJ's condition.
(c) He offers to take on LBJ's work.
(d) He oversees LBJ's staff.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is General Douglas MacArthur relieved from his command in Korea?

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

3. What is the name of LBJ's North Korean investigation committee?

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

5. What liberal Senator does LBJ attempt to befriend when leaders run into difficulties bringing the liberals and conservatives together?

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