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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What high office did Lamar hold at the end of his career?
(a) Secretary of the Interior.
(b) Head of the Democratic National Committee.
(c) Justice of the Supreme Court.
(d) Vice-President of the United States.

2. What famous speech did Lamar give in Congress?
(a) The case for Confederacy speech.
(b) The Stars and Stripes speech.
(c) Give me liberty of give me death speech.
(d) An eloquent eulogy for Charles Sumner.

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

4. What position did Lamar take after the Civil War?
(a) That people should save their confederate money.
(b) That those who supported the Union should be tried as war criminals.
(c) That laws needed to be enacted to punish carpetbaggers.
(d) The way to end the South's suffering was compromise and reconciliation with the North.

5. Which candidate did Norris support in the 1928 Presidential election?
(a) Al Gore.
(b) Al Newman.
(c) Al Smith.
(d) Al Sharpton.

6. How did Lamar view the free silver movement of 1877?
(a) He was too ill to pay it much attention.
(b) He saw it as creating easy inflationary money.
(c) He saw it as a depletion of the nation's silver.
(d) He supported it to help save Mississippi.

7. What memorable line did the Toledo BLADE print about Taft after he decried the Nuremberg trials?
(a) That Taft wanted to let loose on the world a terrible gang of cutthroats.
(b) He has no feeling about the soup kitchens of 1932 but supports Nazi criminals.
(c) This is not the time to weaken the punishment of international crimes.
(d) He has a wonderful mind that knows practically everything and understands practically nothing.

8. What was Lamar's main purpose in his political actions?
(a) To become President of the United States.
(b) To transfer his allegience to the Northern Democrats.
(c) To bring the South peacefully back into the Union.
(d) To rekindle the anamosity between North and South.

9. Did Norris always oppose President Wilson's measures?
(a) No. He was opposed to any form of isolationism.
(b) Yes. He was a total critic of Woodrow Wilson.
(c) No. He supported the President's issues that made him look good in Nabraska.
(d) No. He supported the President's major foreign policy issues.

10. What was leaked to the newspapers that did away with American public resistance to the Armed Ship Bill?
(a) The Kaiser's war zone warning.
(b) The Mexican conspiracy.
(c) The Zimmerman note.
(d) The sinking of the Titanic.

11. What nickname was given to Joe Cannon because of his power?
(a) King Cannon.
(b) Czar Cannon.
(c) Duke Cannon.
(d) Lord Cannon.

12. How was Lamar similar to author Joel Harris?
(a) Lamar, like Harris, was a graduate of Oxford.
(b) Lamar, like Harris, told tales about the South.
(c) Lamar wrote a book called Tunes of the South.
(d) Lamar had a pet named Br'er Rabbit.

13. How did journalist William Preston Johnson describe the intellectual atmosphere of the Lamar family?
(a) The fatal dowry of genius was upon the house.
(b) The Lamars had amassed a huge library.
(c) There was a black thread of moodiness in all the family.
(d) They were self taught but not uneducated.

14. Who called Taft's speech against the Nazi war crimes trials a classic example of his muddled and confused thinking?
(a) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
(b) Former Nazi Franz Von Papen.
(c) Sen. Scott Lucas of Illinois.
(d) Newspaper columnist David Lawrence.

15. Taft's words on freedom of thought, freedom from orthodox dogma, and the right to think for oneself are his definition of what?
(a) Conservatism.
(b) Unitarianism.
(c) Liberalism.
(d) Socialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many tickets were printed up for seats during the Johnson Impeachment Trial?

2. What Senator had to be carried into the Senate to cast his vote on Johnson's impeachment?

3. What book did Lamar later say was the first one ever put into his hands to read?

4. How did Lucius Lamar first run for Congress?

5. Who said that he would rather be in his grave than in the presidency?

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