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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 is the example of some advice Kennedy received when he first became a Congressman?
(a) Follow the yellow brick road.
(b) Listen and do what the majority are doing.
(c) The way to get along is to go along.
(d) The way to go is to make your own decisions.

2. How did Daniel Webster describe and define himself?
(a) As a debator who loved to take any opposing view.
(b) As a citizen of the world.
(c) Not as a Massachusetts man but as an American.
(d) As a free thinker opposed to the Union.

3. What advantage did John Quincey Adams have as a politician?
(a) More education than experience.
(b) The confidence of coming from a strong political family.
(c) Ignorance of the Washington politics.
(d) More money than anyone else.

4. Besides appearing to be disloyal to his father when he aligned himself with Jefferson's politics, what other problem arose for John Quincey Adams?
(a) He lost his political influence for many months.
(b) Disillusionment of his party when he broke with them and voted with Jefferson.
(c) His mother becaue distraught that her son and husband did not agree.
(d) He was forced to change political parties and lose his seniority.

5. Why did Houston define himself as an old fogy?
(a) Because, he said, I don't always practice what I preach.
(b) Because, he said, I have been around far too long and need to retire.
(c) Because, he said, I cling devotedly to the principles upon which our government was founded.
(d) Because, he said, he had been made a martyr for Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What view did Webster take that made him unpopular with abolitionists?

2. Why did Thomas Hart Benton get the nickname of Old Bullion?

3. For what conflict does Kennedy feel the most empathy?

4. What advantage do minority special interest groups have to influence elected officials?

5. Which of the following public offices did John Quincey Adams NOT hold?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Kennedy identify as a difficult situation after a candidate is voted into the senate?

3. What was the irony of John Quincey's taking sides with Jefferson against his father?

4. What advantages does Kennedy say John Quincey Adams had for political life?

5. Describe Benton's leaving Tennessee early in his life.

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

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

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

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

10. Aside from being Senator from Massachusetts, what was Daniel Webster known for?

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