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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was ironic when the Matthews Resolution came up for a vote in the Senate?
(a) Lamar voted against it but the other Senator, a Negro appointed by the reconstruction, voted for it.
(b) Lamar had gone back to Mississippi and missed the vote.
(c) The Resolution came before the Senate before the Bland Bill.
(d) Matthews voted against his own resolution.

2. Who was the Senator from Nebraska who opposed President Woodrow Wilson's Armed Ship Bill?
(a) George W. Norris.
(b) Rutherford Hayes.
(c) Lucius Lamar.
(d) James W. Grimes.

3. What were the circumstances that brought Edmund G. Ross to Congress as Senator from Kansas?
(a) He was sent after a recall of Senator Lane.
(b) The resignation of Senator Lane who was a reconstructionist.
(c) A landslide vote of the Kansas people.
(d) The suicide of his predecessor, Senator Jim Lane.

4. What were Norris' opening words at the public meeting in Nebraska after the filibuster?
(a) Four score and twenty years ago.
(b) I have come home to tell you the truth.
(c) Thank you for not hissing.
(d) I am not a traitor.

5. What famous piece of legislation bears Robert A. Taft's name?
(a) The Taft Welfare Act.
(b) The Taft-Hartley Act.
(c) The Taft Health Plan.
(d) The Taft Education Manifesto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another difficult situation for an elected official besides the interests of the nation and those of the constituency?

2. What poet does Kennedy quote to express the bitterness of the South during reconstruction?

3. What was leaked to the newspapers that did away with American public resistance to the Armed Ship Bill?

4. All of the examples in Kennedy's book speak of courage in what arena?

5. What questionable arrangement kept Webster in the Senate when he was about to resign?

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