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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphoric comparison does Kennedy make to John Quincey Adams' Puritanism?
(a) Kennedy's Catholicism.
(b) The east coast, craggy, rocky, somber and strong.
(c) A conflict of interests.
(d) A mighty ship in a storm.

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

3. What is the example of some advice Kennedy received when he first became a Congressman?
(a) Listen and do what the majority are doing.
(b) The way to get along is to go along.
(c) Follow the yellow brick road.
(d) The way to go is to make your own decisions.

4. In PROFILES IN COURAGE, what does John F. Kennedy fear the American public has forgotten?
(a) Where to look for courage in a politician.
(b) How to tell if a man is honest.
(c) What courage actually is.
(d) The basic principles our country was founded on.

5. What is Kennedy's third pressure that he feels is the most damaging?
(a) Making decisions when you do not have enough information to make good ones.
(b) Making decisions that will satisfy everyone in one way or another.
(c) Making decisions when a fellow Senator or Congressman needs to get a pet project going.
(d) Making decisions when to satisfy a constituancy will not be what is best for the nation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was John Quincey Adams generally unhappy?

2. How did one reporter categorize elected officials?

3. What does Kennedy identify as the second pressure that prevents courageous deeds by elected officials.

4. What trait of Adams ultimately caused him to suffer great disappointments?

5. What leader who was at odds with Adams' father did John Quincey find himself agreeing with quite often?

(see the answer key)

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