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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What measure did Henry Clay enlist Webster to help with?
(a) Speaches warning about Abraham Lincoln's political ambitions.
(b) Clay's bid for re-election.
(c) Re-writing the Bill of Rights to include slavery.
(d) The Great Compromise of 1850.

3. How was Benton's behavior different when he was with his family from when he was involved in politics?
(a) He was easy on political opponents and harsh on his family.
(b) He was always warm and gentle around his family.
(c) He hid his wife's mental illness from the public.
(d) He held his family by fear.

4. What act of inconsistency brought his Missouri constituents to brand him a traitor?
(a) His opposition to annexting Texas.
(b) His willingness to allow the country to go to war.
(c) His voting with the Republicans.
(d) His opposition to the Missouri Compromise.

5. Whom did the Adams family say that the magistrate must serve?
(a) His family.
(b) His people.
(c) His party.
(d) His god.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an irony of Benton's opposition to the slave states?

2. Why did Houston define himself as an old fogy?

3. After Houston's removal from the Senate, what office did he run for and win as an independent?

4. What view did Webster take that made him unpopular with abolitionists?

5. What is a constant that an elected official must understand?

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