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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Daniel Webster describe and define himself?
(a) As a debator who loved to take any opposing view.
(b) As a citizen of the world.
(c) As a free thinker opposed to the Union.
(d) Not as a Massachusetts man but as an American.

2. When Houston ran away from home in his childhood, where did he go?
(a) To sea.
(b) To his grandfather.
(c) To live with the Cherokee.
(d) To Texas.

3. How was Benton's behavior different when he was with his family from when he was involved in politics?
(a) He was easy on political opponents and harsh on his family.
(b) He was always warm and gentle around his family.
(c) He held his family by fear.
(d) He hid his wife's mental illness from the public.

4. What earned Houston the name of traitor and pro-Abolitionist?
(a) His vote against the Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
(b) His support of President Lincoln.
(c) His vote against the Missouri compromise.
(d) His friendship with Senator Calhoun.

5. What was Webster's justification for accepting political gifts and money?
(a) He published his gifts in the newspaper.
(b) He shared the gifts with other Senators and Congressmen.
(c) He used everything he collected for his favorite charities.
(d) He considered them gifts from God and from voters or constituents who Webster believed were created in God's image.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Lamar later say was the first one ever put into his hands to read?

2. What is the irony of Houston's defending the Northerner's rights to abolition?

3. What action by Texas brought about the end of Houston's career?

4. What was it about Benton that inspired the approval of his Missouri constituency?

5. In terms of service in office of both father and son, what similarity set them apart from presidents before and after them?

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