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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 do to keep power in the Senate?
(a) Visit Senate daily.
(b) Keep loyal Senators in office.
(c) Appoint an assistant to work in Senate.
(d) Propose his VP office remain in the Senate.

2. Who conducts the longest one man filibuster described in chapter 41?
(a) Russell.
(b) LBJ.
(c) Church.
(d) Thurmond.

3. What is the vote on making H.R. 6127 pending business?
(a) 18-71.
(b) 25-98.
(c) 71-18.
(d) 50-79.

4. What has to be included in the Part IV to still enforce voting rights?
(a) Due diligance.
(b) Desegregation.
(c) Civil contempt provisions.
(d) Jury trial.

5. What Senate rule does Proxmire attack?
(a) Rule 28.
(b) Rule 22.
(c) Filibuster Rule.
(d) One Man Rule.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conservative Senator does LBJ call to replace Kilgore after his death in 1956?

2. What does Rayburn stall in order to help LBJ with the presidential nomination?

3. What group steps in to help the widow of the deceased man in 1945?

4. Who wins the 1956 nomination?

5. What Supreme Court case in 1945 deems separate but equal unconstitutional?

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads to the increase the black voters?

2. What does Russell claim Part III of the Civil Rights bill really is?

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

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

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

6. What evidence indicates LBJ compassion toward minorities?

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

8. What environment does LBJ grow up in that leads him to be prejudice?

9. Why does LBJ want his Vice Presidential offices to remain where his Senate offices are?

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

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