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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 were Benton's most effective weapons as a fighter?
(a) Guns and canons.
(b) Friends and relatives.
(c) Knives and bull whips.
(d) Wit and sarcasm.

2. What did the historian Wharton say about Houston's courage as he fought against Texas' secession from the Union?
(a) He relapsed into alcoholism and went back to the Cherokee.
(b) It took a thousand times more courage than charging up the hill at San Jacinto.
(c) No one paid any attention as Houston entered the Secessionist Convention.
(d) Houston finally lost his courage and gave in to popular opinion.

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

4. What two bills did Houston support that made him unpopular in the South?
(a) Calhoun's bills and resolutions on the Oregon question.
(b) The Kansas-Nebraska bill and the articles of confederation.
(c) The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850.
(d) The repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the bill of rights.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Senator pulled a gun on Benton once?

3. John Quincey Adams was a Senator from what state?

4. How did Daniel Webster describe and define himself?

5. What do the subject of PROFILES IN COURAGE all have in common?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Write down the epithet that testified to the intelligence of Thomas Hart Benton.

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

4. What does Kennedy point out as interesting about letter John Quincey wrote at ages nine and forty-five?

5. If Webster's popularity was an asset, how does Kennedy point out that it was also a liability?

6. What courageous vote did Houston cast that was unpopular with his constituents in Texas?

7. Discus the results of Benton's not voting for the annexation of Texas.

8. Why was John Quincey Adams' relationship with Thomas Jefferson so strange?

9. What great stand did Webster take against the wishes of his abolitionist constituents?

10. What are the three pressures Kennedy identifies for any elected official?

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