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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Sam Johnson working in Chapter 6?
(a) A local bank.
(b) The Texas legislature.
(c) The railroad.
(d) An oil company.

2. Who was offering Lyndon the opportunity for a secure financial future?
(a) A professor.
(b) An employer.
(c) An older man.
(d) His mother.

3. The Buntons were known for _____________.
(a) lewd behavior.
(b) big thinking.
(c) stinginess.
(d) being greedy.

4. In the ten years from 1837-1847, the population of the Texas Hill Country grew from 40,000 to _______________.
(a) 200,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 140,000.
(d) 100,000.

5. What was rare about Lyndon's mother living in the 19th century?
(a) She was college educated.
(b) She was a nurse.
(c) She ran her own business.
(d) She was a suffragette.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the change in the Johnson household do to Lyndon?

2. What was the grassy part of the state in #10 called?

3. How old was Lyndon Johnson when the author wrote about him in the Introduction?

4. What did Rebekah refuse to do one day until Lyndon was named?

5. What was the name of the political group in the South which did not follow the white-supremacist political route?

(see the answer key)

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