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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphoric comparison does Kennedy make to John Quincey Adams' Puritanism?
(a) Kennedy's Catholicism.
(b) A mighty ship in a storm.
(c) A conflict of interests.
(d) The east coast, craggy, rocky, somber and strong.

2. After Houston's removal from the Senate, what office did he run for and win as an independent?
(a) Senator from Tennessee.
(b) Governor of Texas.
(c) Attorney General of Texas.
(d) House of Representatives.

3. What questionable arrangement kept Webster in the Senate when he was about to resign?
(a) Webster appointed his relatives to Senate jobs.
(b) Webster lied under oath in a Senate hearing.
(c) Webster was offered a bfribe which he nearly accepted.
(d) Businesses who benefited from his help paid off his debts so he could remain in the senate.

4. How did Webster view the Compromise of 1850 in terms of his anti-slavery convictions?
(a) He thought it would give him power to run for President.
(b) He believed that compromise would eventually lead to abolition.
(c) He viewed it as a short-term compromise.
(d) He wanted to bring the prospect of Civil War to a head.

5. What Senator pulled a gun on Benton once?
(a) Senator Martin VanBuren.
(b) Senator Aaron Burr.
(c) Senator Henry Foote.
(d) Senator William Cooper.

6. What earned Houston the name of traitor and pro-Abolitionist?
(a) His support of President Lincoln.
(b) His friendship with Senator Calhoun.
(c) His vote against the Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
(d) His vote against the Missouri compromise.

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

8. What was so strange about Henry Clay's enlisting Webster in his cause for compromise?
(a) Webster had given many speeches opposing Henry Clay.
(b) Clay had always opposed Webster in the Senate before.
(c) Clay was from the South and Webster was from the North.
(d) Clay was a republican and Webster was an independent.

9. For what conflict does Kennedy feel the most empathy?
(a) The conflict between Congress and the Supreme Court.
(b) The conflict of constituency interest versus national interests.
(c) The conflict between political parties.
(d) The conflict of special interests versus constituency interests.

10. What was Daniel Webster known for during his lifetime?
(a) As a particularly eloquent speaker.
(b) As a politician who opposed any kind of compromise.
(c) As a squeaky voiced speaker.
(d) As a writer of fiction.

11. For what prestigious university did Adams once work as a professor?
(a) Dartmouth.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

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

13. Who suggested that Senators were vulgar demagogues?
(a) A preacher.
(b) An ambassador.
(c) A cabinet member.
(d) A reporter.

14. Why did Thomas Hart Benton get the nickname of Old Bullion?
(a) His gold plated sign on his office door.
(b) His greed for money.
(c) His advocacy for hard currency.
(d) His silver mines in Missouri.

15. In addition to being the first Senator from Missouri, what other first did Benton achieve?
(a) First Senator to change political parties.
(b) First Senator to serve 30 years in the Senate.
(c) First politician to support Martin Van Buren.
(d) First politician to have a duel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What leader who was at odds with Adams' father did John Quincey find himself agreeing with quite often?

2. What was the result of Webster's courageous stand in giving the Seventh of March speech?

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

4. What is the irony of Houston's defending the Northerner's rights to abolition?

5. What issue caused Benton finally to begin losing popularity in Missouri?

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