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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an irony of Benton's opposition to the slave states?
(a) He refused to go against his own party.
(b) He owned slaves himself.
(c) He was a descendent of a slave.
(d) He opposed abolition.

2. What is the first pressure of Americans that keeps them from acting courageously according to Kennedy?
(a) The need to be well liked.
(b) The need to be right all the time.
(c) The need to be different from other politicians.
(d) The need to raise campaign money.

3. What advantage did John Quincey Adams have as a politician?
(a) Ignorance of the Washington politics.
(b) More money than anyone else.
(c) More education than experience.
(d) The confidence of coming from a strong political family.

4. Kennedy sees as a weakness in John Quincey Adams an emotional attachment to whom?
(a) His wife and his mistress.
(b) His religious congregational members.
(c) His college friends and professors.
(d) His parents and God.

5. What advantage do minority special interest groups have to influence elected officials?
(a) Being articulate and able to sway the public.
(b) Being able to get medial coverage without a budget.
(c) Not needing money to get their message across.
(d) Being watchdogs on everything the official does.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did one reporter categorize elected officials?

2. For what conflict does Kennedy feel the most empathy?

3. How did Benton urge support for expansion to the West?

4. Why was Webster a leader in the North prior to the Civil War?

5. What was Benton's characteristic that early on made his constituents love him?

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