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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. What does LBJ resign from the Texas NYA?
(a) He is not properly serving the people.
(b) It is interfering with his principles.
(c) To run for Congress.
(d) He is done with social service.

2. Who reigns in the southern Senators when they threaten to filibuster?
(a) Church.
(b) LBJ.
(c) Russell.
(d) Graham.

3. When LBJ returns to the Senate after Easter, what is he determined to do?
(a) Pass Civil Rights legislation.
(b) Side fully with the south.
(c) Deny all Civil Rights legislation.
(d) Side fully with the liberals.

4. What does LBJ unleash by the end of chapter 37?
(a) His hatred toward unjustice.
(b) His hatred toward minorities.
(c) His support for the south.
(d) His empathy for minorities.

5. What does the Senate do when LBJ is welcomed back from his heart attack and recovery in 1956?
(a) Resume business.
(b) Give him a Standing Ovation.
(c) Bring him up to date.
(d) Vote for him to keep his position.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who losses ground among African Americans from 1952-1956?

2. What does the Douglas Group refuse to compromise on regarding the Civil Rights legislation?

3. What has to be included in the Part IV to still enforce voting rights?

4. What does LBJ offer the north westerners in return for their vote?

5. Who conducts the longest one man filibuster described in chapter 41?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does LBJ argue about that Civil Rights legislation needing to be?

2. How does the quid pro quo work for LBJ's Civil Rights bill?

3. Why is it important for LBJ to win the 1956 Democratic nomination?

4. Why is LBJ's check-up at the Mayo Clinic a convenient absence from Senate?

5. What does the Declaration of Constitutional Principles pronounce?

6. What evidence indicates LBJ compassion toward minorities?

7. What does the 1956 election do to LBJ?

8. What happens as a result of the Supreme Court's decision to allow an African American student register at the University of Alabama?

9. Why does LBJ distance himself from the publicity surrounding the funeral?

10. What does LBJ's Civil Rights law do for the movement?

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