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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 people should save their confederate money.
(c) That laws needed to be enacted to punish carpetbaggers.
(d) That those who supported the Union should be tried as war criminals.

3. What act of courage marked the Presidency of Robert A. Taft's father, William Howard Taft?
(a) Forecasting that America would go to war with Germany and Japan.
(b) Standing by his Secretary of the Interior against opposition from Pinchot and Roosevelt.
(c) Denouncing Woodrow Wilson for his mishandling of WWI.
(d) Pushing for more and more farm subsidies.

4. Taft supported education, health, housing, and other welfare programs against his normal conservative Republicanism. Why?
(a) He felt these were not being served adequately by the private sector.
(b) He wanted to play both sides of the fence in a bid for the Presidency.
(c) His state of Ohio had high unemployment and needed those services.
(d) It was an attempt on his part to placate the unions.

5. Why did Norris oppose the Armed Ship Bill when his state seemed to favor it?
(a) He wanted to gain fame as the man who defied President Wilson.
(b) He thought it should really be a declaration of war.
(c) Norris believed it was a ploy to get the US into WWI without going through congress.
(d) He thought the bill would prevent the US from declaring war on Germany.

6. How did Lucius Lamar first run for Congress?
(a) As an independent.
(b) As a secessionist.
(c) As a Radical Republican.
(d) As a pro-Unionist.

7. Who was the Democratic majority leader in the Senate who later became Vice President?
(a) John Nance Garner.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Alben Barkley.
(d) Jacob Javits.

8. What benefit did Norris fight for to aid the people of Tennessee Valley?
(a) Tax relief for the poor.
(b) Better roads and highways.
(c) Coal mining concessions.
(d) Low cost electricity.

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

10. How many other Republicans lost their careers by standing with Ross against the impeachment of President Johnson?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

11. What does Kennedy identify as the personal tragedy and national greatness about Sen. Robert A. Taft?
(a) That he got his party's nomination three times but never won a Presidential election.
(b) That he aspired to be President but his uncompromising sense of right prevented that from happening.
(c) That his father had been President but he had no such ambitions.
(d) That he would always speak out in such a way that appeared to compromise his beliefs.

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

13. After Lamar toured Mississippi to discuss his reasons for voting the way he did, how did the people react?
(a) They recalled him from Congress.
(b) They changed their opposition to Lamar and supported him.
(c) They held rallies against him.
(d) No one came out to hear the traitor.

14. What was Ross' military experience?
(a) The Ohio Militia and the Confederate Army.
(b) The Kansas Free State Army and the Union Army.
(c) The Union Army and the Union Navy.
(d) The Republic of Texas Army and the Union Army.

15. What does Kennedy suggest is the number of courageous Senators who have put their political lives on the line in order to speak honestly?
(a) The ones in his book are the only ones.
(b) There are too many to name.
(c) He wrote down a list of over fifty.
(d) He said every Senator has that kind of honesty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the results of Norris' opposition of President Wilson on the Armed Ship Bill?

2. Which bitter rival of Sen. Robert A. Taft actually ended up in the White House?

3. Which courageous Senator refused to support the expunging of some of Jackson's military activities?

4. How had President Johnson come to power?

5. What nickname was given to Joe Cannon because of his power?

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