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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kennedy see as Webster's moral flaw?
(a) Webster was an alcoholic and often lost track of time.
(b) Webster had no compunction against taking money for political favors.
(c) Webster had many affairs his wife did not know about.
(d) Webster was a compulsive gambler.

2. What does Kennedy identify as the second pressure that prevents courageous deeds by elected officials.
(a) The need to travel the world.
(b) The need to publish a book.
(c) The need to get more education.
(d) The need to get re-elected.

3. What is a constant that an elected official must understand?
(a) He or she will never hear from the constituency until election day.
(b) The media will not report anything the elected official does not want made public.
(c) He or she is under scrutiny by the constituency.
(d) That once elected, the official is no longer responsible to the constituency.

4. How did Benton urge support for expansion to the West?
(a) He supported communications methods such as the telegraph, the Pony Express and roadways that ran into the country.
(b) He made a Congressional junket to Oregon.
(c) He pushed a measure giving extra benefits to leaders of wagon trains.
(d) He voted to give tax breaks to manufacturers of wagons.

5. How did Webster's constituents view his stand on compromise with the slave states?
(a) It drew their wrath.
(b) They supported him wholeheartedly.
(c) They were proud of their native son.
(d) They thought he should run for President.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kennedy say was a liability about Webster's immense popularity with both sides of the political spectrum?

2. How did Webster view the Compromise of 1850 in terms of his anti-slavery convictions?

3. For what prestigious university did Adams once work as a professor?

4. To what does Kennedy ascribe as half the power of Webster?

5. Whom did the Adams family say that the magistrate must serve?

(see the answer key)

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