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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 when to satisfy a constituancy will not be what is best for the nation.
(c) Making decisions that will satisfy everyone in one way or another.
(d) Making decisions when a fellow Senator or Congressman needs to get a pet project going.

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

3. What character traits did Henry Adams consider that Lamar possessed above all others?
(a) Tact and humor.
(b) Envy and averace.
(c) Amiability and aimlessness.
(d) Stubbornness and greed.

4. What method did Sen. Norris use to prevent the passage of the Armed Ship Bill?
(a) Collecting enough votes to defveat it.
(b) Buried in committee.
(c) A Petition.
(d) Filibuster.

5. What unwanted praise did Norris and his group receive after the filibuster?
(a) Praise from Lenin in Russia.
(b) Praise from the German press.
(c) Praise from the French who also opposed the war.
(d) Praise from the Mexican government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said that courage is grace under pressure?

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

3. Under what law was President Andrew Johnson tried in the Congress?

4. What is the example of some advice Kennedy received when he first became a Congressman?

5. To whom was Ross compared in a Kansas newspaper editorial?

(see the answer key)

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