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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a particular problem on occasion when the electorate presents a desire to the elected official?
(a) What they want they are not willing to help pay for.
(b) What they want is not clear to the elected official.
(c) What they want may not in the long run be good for the constituency.
(d) What they want is not fair to fixed income people.

2. Who said that courage is grace under pressure?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Bret Hart.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) John Quincy Adams.

3. What metaphor does Kennedy use to describe the relationship between the elected official and the electorate?
(a) A coach-team relationship.
(b) A lawyer-client relationship.
(c) A doctor-patient relationship.
(d) A father-child relationship.

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

5. Which of the following public offices did John Quincey Adams NOT hold?
(a) Supreme Court Justice.
(b) Congressman.
(c) Senator.
(d) President.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advantage do minority special interest groups have to influence elected officials?

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

3. In PROFILES IN COURAGE, what does John F. Kennedy fear the American public has forgotten?

4. Who suggested that Senators were vulgar demagogues?

5. What was the dichotomy concerning John Quincey Adams' father?

(see the answer key)

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