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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Taft's candor cause him to lose his party's nomination for President?
(a) His candor caused him to be overly tactful.
(b) His answers were always truthful and very often blunt.
(c) He did not always say exactly what he meant.
(d) People thought you could not trust a man like that.

2. Where did Houston deliver his acceptance speech after being elected Governor as an independent?
(a) At San Jacinto.
(b) On the steps of the Capitol building.
(c) In Houston, Texas.
(d) In San Antonio, Texas.

3. What poet does Kennedy quote to express the bitterness of the South during reconstruction?
(a) Longfellow.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Vachal Lindsay.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.

4. Why did Norris oppose the Armed Ship Bill when his state seemed to favor it?
(a) He thought it should really be a declaration of war.
(b) Norris believed it was a ploy to get the US into WWI without going through congress.
(c) He wanted to gain fame as the man who defied President Wilson.
(d) He thought the bill would prevent the US from declaring war on Germany.

5. Who was the Senator from Nebraska who opposed President Woodrow Wilson's Armed Ship Bill?
(a) Lucius Lamar.
(b) George W. Norris.
(c) James W. Grimes.
(d) Rutherford Hayes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kennedy suggest prevents a lot of people from acting courageously?

2. What benefit did Norris fight for to aid the people of Tennessee Valley?

3. Which candidate did Norris support in the 1928 Presidential election?

4. Prior to the Civil War, what notable action did Lamar undertake with Jefferson Davis?

5. How had President Johnson come to power?

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