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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 many votes does LBJ need to vote as a Bloc with the south against cloture?
(a) 11.
(b) 15.
(c) 7.
(d) 12.

2. As LBJ listens to various people, exactly what is he listening for?
(a) What they want out of the civil rights movement.
(b) What they are not saying.
(c) Their ability to be bribed.
(d) Their constituents needs.

3. What civil rights amendments outlaw slavery and guarantee the right to vote and due process?
(a) 13, 14, 15.
(b) 1, 13, 19.
(c) 1, 5, 8.
(d) 5, 9, 15.

4. What do liberals feel is the result if a white juror is selected for the southern jury?
(a) Aquittal.
(b) A hung Jury.
(c) Conviction.
(d) Racism.

5. Who does LBJ recruit to help with his presidential nomination?
(a) Humphrey.
(b) Russell.
(c) Smathers.
(d) Rowe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Senators are on the Judiciary Committee in 1956 just before the Democratic Presidential nominations?

2. How do conservative financiers control the Mexican American votes?

3. What does LBJ have to do before being sworn in as VP?

4. As a congressman, what does LBJ do for poor families in Texas Hill Country?

5. What does a change in Texas law allow LBJ to do in 1960?

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads to the increase the black voters?

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

3. Hoe does LBJ stop a Supreme-Court ripping bill from reaching the Senate floor?

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

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

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

7. What does the 1956 election do to LBJ?

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

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

10. What happens in the Senate when Neely of West Virginia dies?

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