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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poet does Kennedy quote to express the bitterness of the South during reconstruction?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Longfellow.
(c) Vachal Lindsay.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.

2. What was Ross' military experience?
(a) The Republic of Texas Army and the Union Army.
(b) The Ohio Militia and the Confederate Army.
(c) The Union Army and the Union Navy.
(d) The Kansas Free State Army and the Union Army.

3. What does Kennedy identify as the personal tragedy and national greatness about Sen. Robert A. Taft?
(a) That he got his party's nomination three times but never won a Presidential election.
(b) That he would always speak out in such a way that appeared to compromise his beliefs.
(c) That his father had been President but he had no such ambitions.
(d) That he aspired to be President but his uncompromising sense of right prevented that from happening.

4. When Houston ran away from home in his childhood, where did he go?
(a) To sea.
(b) To Texas.
(c) To his grandfather.
(d) To live with the Cherokee.

5. What traits indicate that Adams suffered common human emotions?
(a) Adams secret life of debauchery.
(b) His hate and retribution against his enemies.
(c) Lapses in his Puritanical beliefs.
(d) Times of disappointment and hurt at loss of popularity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was it so surprising to the Radical Republicans that Ross would not announce his vote before the trial began?

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

3. What does Kennedy see as Webster's moral flaw?

4. In PROFILES IN COURAGE, what does John F. Kennedy fear the American public has forgotten?

5. What well-known military leader had Houston served under?

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