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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. How does the town of Corpus Christi feel about LBJ's actions to bring the soldier home?
(a) He is bringing false publicity.
(b) Honored.
(c) Devastated.
(d) He is uplifting the town by his efforts.

2. What does Lady Bird consider the happiest years of her life?
(a) The White House Years.
(b) The college years.
(c) The Senate years.
(d) The Texas NYA years.

3. What does LBJ feel and hear from southern Senators?
(a) Peace for Civil Rights.
(b) Defiance against Civil Rights.
(c) Shame.
(d) Hatred.

4. How does LBJ feel he wins over the liberals for the coming Democratic Presidential nomination?
(a) Give them better committee positions.
(b) Allow then to have the floor.
(c) Bring them to his ranch.
(d) Pass the Social Security Act.

5. How do some liberals view LBJ by 1956?
(a) The enemy.
(b) Indifferent to the cause.
(c) A true supporter.
(d) A potential supporter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is selected to read the Southern Manifesto on the Senate floor?

2. What civil rights amendments outlaw slavery and guarantee the right to vote and due process?

3. What does LBJ do to keep power in the Senate?

4. What does Russell do if he is threatened by a comprehensive civil rights bill?

5. What does the press accuse LBJ of in 1956?

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads to the increase the black voters?

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

3. What is Russell's strategy for the speeches given by the southerners over the Civil Rights bill?

4. How does LBJ coordinate the return of Private Felic Longoria's body?

5. How does LBJ keep a sense of urgency alive in the Senate?

6. What is this chapter called "Working Up"?

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

8. Why does Russell advise LBJ that his bill is meaningless at this time?

9. What does the Declaration of Constitutional Principles pronounce?

10. What does the 1956 election do to LBJ?

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