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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kennedy suggest prevents a lot of people from acting courageously?
(a) Fear of the unknown.
(b) Not enough education about courage.
(c) Averice and greed.
(d) Social and public pressures.

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

3. Why was Webster a leader in the North prior to the Civil War?
(a) He could out talk his opponents.
(b) He was older than any other politician.
(c) He knew all the words in the dictionary.
(d) He had strong views against slavery.

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

5. How did Daniel Webster describe and define himself?
(a) As a debator who loved to take any opposing view.
(b) As a free thinker opposed to the Union.
(c) As a citizen of the world.
(d) Not as a Massachusetts man but as an American.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advantage did John Quincey Adams have as a politician?

2. What effect did Webster's three-hour-long speech in the Senate have in 1850?

3. How did one reporter categorize elected officials?

4. What measure did Henry Clay enlist Webster to help with?

5. What is another difficult situation for an elected official besides the interests of the nation and those of the constituency?

(see the answer key)

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