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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 role does LBJ want to play during the funeral?
(a) Key participant.
(b) He does not attend.
(c) Public.
(d) Minimal.

2. How does the Chamber of Commerce describe LBJ?
(a) Itchy trigger finger.
(b) An honorable man.
(c) Son of Texas.
(d) Selfish.

3. How many Senators are on the Judiciary Committee in 1956 just before the Democratic Presidential nominations?
(a) 18.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 16.

4. How do conservative financiers control the Mexican American votes?
(a) Bribes.
(b) Keeping voter registration down.
(c) The patron system.
(d) Threats.

5. Who does LBJ assign as acting Whip in 1956?
(a) Smathers.
(b) Rowe.
(c) Hunphrey.
(d) Russell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wins the 1956 nomination?

2. In addition to LBJ, what other two Senators do not sign the Declaration of Constitutional Principles?

3. What liberal does LBJ court by bringing them to his ranch?

4. Prior to holding the Presidency, what does LBJ say about African Americans?

5. What do Church and O'Mahoney propose as an addendum to voting rights laws?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are LBJ's fears when the Rules Committee forms a sub-committee to investigate campaign financing?

3. What is the public's reaction to the Brown v. Board of Education case?

4. Why does LBJ originally decline the support of the southern Senators for the presidential nomination?

5. What does the Declaration of Constitutional Principles pronounce?

6. What two committees wae created in 1958 and what is their purpose?

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

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

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

10. What do the liberals attempt to do to speed up the bills reaching the Senate floor?

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