1. How did Lamar view the free silver movement of 1877?
(a) He was too ill to pay it much attention.
(b) He supported it to help save Mississippi.
(c) He saw it as a depletion of the nation's silver.
(d) He saw it as creating easy inflationary money.

2. What position did Lamar take after the Civil War?
(a) That people should save their confederate money.
(b) That those who supported the Union should be tried as war criminals.
(c) The way to end the South's suffering was compromise and reconciliation with the North.
(d) That laws needed to be enacted to punish carpetbaggers.

3. What leader who was at odds with Adams' father did John Quincey find himself agreeing with quite often?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Alexander Hamilton.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) George Washington.

4. What was rumored to be the cause of Houston's breakdown and resigning as Governor of Tennessee?
(a) People were pressuring him to run for President of the Union but he did not want to.
(b) General Andrew Jackson called him for an important secret mission.
(c) He started drinking heavily and could not perform his duties.
(d) He discovered that his young bride had been forced to marry him even though she loved another.

5. How did journalist William Preston Johnson describe the intellectual atmosphere of the Lamar family?
(a) The Lamars had amassed a huge library.
(b) There was a black thread of moodiness in all the family.
(c) The fatal dowry of genius was upon the house.
(d) They were self taught but not uneducated.