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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Lamar similar to author Joel Harris?
(a) Lamar had a pet named Br'er Rabbit.
(b) Lamar, like Harris, was a graduate of Oxford.
(c) Lamar, like Harris, told tales about the South.
(d) Lamar wrote a book called Tunes of the South.

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

3. What is the irony of Houston's defending the Northerner's rights to abolition?
(a) Houston owned slaves himself.
(b) Houston was a slave to the Cherokee.
(c) Houston disliked all Yankees.
(d) Houston opposed slavery except in the South.

4. Why did Houston define himself as an old fogy?
(a) Because, he said, he had been made a martyr for Texas.
(b) Because, he said, I have been around far too long and need to retire.
(c) Because, he said, I cling devotedly to the principles upon which our government was founded.
(d) Because, he said, I don't always practice what I preach.

5. Who served as the Governor of Tennessee and later as Senator from the State of Texas?
(a) Henry Calhoun.
(b) Thomas Hart Benton.
(c) Sam Houston.
(d) Stephen A. Austin.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Houston's removal from the Senate, what office did he run for and win as an independent?

2. How did Daniel Webster describe and define himself?

3. Besides appearing to be disloyal to his father when he aligned himself with Jefferson's politics, what other problem arose for John Quincey Adams?

4. What did Lamar say about his vote against the Matthews Resolution?

5. Where did Benton say he's rather see the Democratic Party rather than give one inch to Mr. Van Buren?

(see the answer key)

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