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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. How did Taft's candor cause him to lose his party's nomination for President?
(a) His answers were always truthful and very often blunt.
(b) People thought you could not trust a man like that.
(c) His candor caused him to be overly tactful.
(d) He did not always say exactly what he meant.

2. What did Robert A. Taft have in common with John Quincey Adams?
(a) They both went to the same university.
(b) Both of their fathers had served as President of the USA.
(c) They were both Quakers.
(d) They both went on to serve on the Supreme Court.

3. What senator dashed his presidential hopes by speaking out against the Ku Klux Klan?
(a) Sen. Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri.
(b) Sen. Sam Houston of Texas.
(c) Sen. Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama.
(d) Sen. Lucius Lamar of Mississippi.

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

5. Who made the statement that when he had made up his mind it was not in the power of man to divert him?
(a) John C. Calhoun.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Sam Houston.
(d) Lucius Lamar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What high office did Lamar hold at the end of his career?

2. What was leaked to the newspapers that did away with American public resistance to the Armed Ship Bill?

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

4. Which senator saved himself from dunking by giving a speech beside the river?

5. How did journalist William Preston Johnson describe the intellectual atmosphere of the Lamar family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was an outstanding act of courage performed by Sen. John Tyler of Virginia?

2. Why did Taft speak out against the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war leaders?

3. What was the first courageous act George W. Norris of Nebraska performed in Congress?

4. After the Senate, what political office did Lamar hold?

5. Why is Ross called the man who saved a president?

6. What difference does Kennedy see between breaking with a political party and breaking with a section?

7. What was the Armed Ship Bill and why did Norris oppose it?

8. What was the result of Lamar's appointment to oversee the recount in the Hayes-Tilden presidential vote?

9. How did Lamar win respect from Northerners and Democrats in Congress?

10. What was wrong with the situation under the lead of Czar Cannon in the House?

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