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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What measure did Henry Clay enlist Webster to help with?
(a) Clay's bid for re-election.
(b) Speaches warning about Abraham Lincoln's political ambitions.
(c) Re-writing the Bill of Rights to include slavery.
(d) The Great Compromise of 1850.

2. What do the subject of PROFILES IN COURAGE all have in common?
(a) They all served as U. S. Senators.
(b) They were all Democrats.
(c) They were all Republicans.
(d) They all lost elections and then won them the next time.

3. What is the irony of Houston's defending the Northerner's rights to abolition?
(a) Houston was a slave to the Cherokee.
(b) Houston disliked all Yankees.
(c) Houston opposed slavery except in the South.
(d) Houston owned slaves himself.

4. Besides the Texas territory which Benton opposed, what other one did he support against his party's stand?
(a) California.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Montana.
(d) Alaska.

5. How did Webster's constituents view his stand on compromise with the slave states?
(a) They thought he should run for President.
(b) They were proud of their native son.
(c) It drew their wrath.
(d) They supported him wholeheartedly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What questionable arrangement kept Webster in the Senate when he was about to resign?

2. Whom did the Adams family say that the magistrate must serve?

3. What was so strange about Henry Clay's enlisting Webster in his cause for compromise?

4. What act of inconsistency brought his Missouri constituents to brand him a traitor?

5. How does Kennedy assess the failure of both Adams presidencies to produce second terms?

Short Essay Questions

1. What metaphor does Kennedy use illustrating the elected official and constituency relationship?

2. Detail the important political positions held by Sam Houston.

3. What personal weakness does Kennedy point out about John Quincey Adams?

4. How did Sen. Benton get his reputation as a fighter?

5. Why was Henry Clay taking a chance when he enlisted Webster to help with passing the 1850 Compromise?

6. What does Kennedy point out as a moral flaw in Daniel Webster?

7. How does the book reflect John Kennedy's admiration for certain former U.S. Senators?

8. What courageous belief did Webster demonstrate by speaking out for the 1850 Compromise?

9. What does Kennedy have to say about political organizations that have the time and resources to mount letter writing campaigns?

10. What caused Houston to resign as governor of Tennessee and go live with the Indians?

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