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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to being the first Senator from Missouri, what other first did Benton achieve?
(a) First Senator to serve 30 years in the Senate.
(b) First politician to support Martin Van Buren.
(c) First politician to have a duel.
(d) First Senator to change political parties.

2. What was one of Benton's favorite sayings about himself?
(a) Benton will never compromise.
(b) Benton and Democracy are one and the same.
(c) Benton is a bull in a china shop.
(d) Benton always knows what is right.

3. For what prestigious university did Adams once work as a professor?
(a) Dartmouth.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Yale.

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

5. What was rumored to be the cause of Houston's breakdown and resigning as Governor of Tennessee?
(a) He started drinking heavily and could not perform his duties.
(b) General Andrew Jackson called him for an important secret mission.
(c) He discovered that his young bride had been forced to marry him even though she loved another.
(d) People were pressuring him to run for President of the Union but he did not want to.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did one reporter categorize elected officials?

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

3. Why did Benton oppose the treaty of annexation of Texas?

4. According to Kennedy, what makes it difficult to recognize courageous acts when they do occur?

5. Who served as the Governor of Tennessee and later as Senator from the State of Texas?

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