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

2. What is an irony of Benton's opposition to the slave states?
(a) He refused to go against his own party.
(b) He owned slaves himself.
(c) He was a descendent of a slave.
(d) He opposed abolition.

3. According to Kennedy, what makes it difficult to recognize courageous acts when they do occur?
(a) Media bias one way or the other.
(b) Business concerns and the competition for attention from the public.
(c) The secrecy of most courageous acts.
(d) Self interest that only looks like courage.

4. What book did Lamar later say was the first one ever put into his hands to read?
(a) Franklin's AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
(b) Plato's REPUBLIC.
(c) Plutarch's LIVES.
(d) Joel Harris' SONG OF THE SOUTH.

5. Which senator saved himself from dunking by giving a speech beside the river?
(a) Sen. Jacob J. Javits of New York.
(b) Sen. Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky.
(c) Sen. Stephen Austin of Texas.
(d) Sen. John Adams of Massachusetts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did journalist William Preston Johnson describe the intellectual atmosphere of the Lamar family?

2. What were Norris' opening words at the public meeting in Nebraska after the filibuster?

3. What was the irony of Norris' using the filibuster to fight passage of the Armed Ship Bill?

4. What is a particular problem on occasion when the electorate presents a desire to the elected official?

5. What disease cut short Lamar's military career?

(see the answer key)

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