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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Lamar say about his vote against the Matthews Resolution?
(a) The directions for how I should vote arrived after the vote had already been taken.
(b) My vote was unimportant in a Senate populated with Radical Republicans and Democrats.
(c) I believe that statesmanship is dead in the South.
(d) If I had voted for it as directed I should have cast my first vote against my conscience.

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

4. Why did George Norris decide to go against his constituents and vote according to his conscience?
(a) He felt that his constituents were being led by the alarmist press.
(b) He was convinced that it was the only way for him to get publicity.
(c) He said that just voting as he was told required no patriotism, no education, and no courage.
(d) It was his purpose to run for President in the next general election.

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

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

7. What disease cut short Lamar's military career?
(a) Laryngitis.
(b) Apoplexy.
(c) Polio.
(d) Dyptheria.

8. Which courageous Senator refused to support the expunging of some of Jackson's military activities?
(a) Sen. John Tyler of Virginia.
(b) Sen. Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky.
(c) Sen. Andrew Johnson of Tennessee.
(d) Sen. Oscar Underwood of Alabama.

9. What was Lamar's involvement in the controversial Hayes-Tilden presidential election?
(a) He supported an election commission that eventually gave Hayes the Presidency.
(b) He made stump speeches for Hayes.
(c) He refused to fight the election results.
(d) He voted against the Democrats and supported Hayes.

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

11. Which bitter rival of Sen. Robert A. Taft actually ended up in the White House?
(a) Thomas E. Dewey.
(b) Harry S. Truman.
(c) Dwight D. Eisenhaur.
(d) Richard Nixon.

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

13. What was Sen. Albert Beveridge's famous statement after he was defeated for speaking out against the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act?
(a) Our country would be better off with an Indian tribe style government of blood and prejudice.
(b) The people of Indiana will see the error of their ways one day in the future.
(c) It is all right, twelve years of hard work, and a clean record; I am content.
(d) I can see now that I should have kept my mouth shut and my mind open.

14. How many votes were needed to convict the President?
(a) 66.
(b) 36.
(c) 40.
(d) 54.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the Radical Republicans happy to see Edmund G. Ross come to the Senate?

2. What does Kennedy identify as the personal tragedy and national greatness about Sen. Robert A. Taft?

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

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

5. Taft's words on freedom of thought, freedom from orthodox dogma, and the right to think for oneself are his definition of what?

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