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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. From whom did Lyndon get his first name?
(a) His mother's brother.
(b) His father's great grandfather.
(c) A lawyer friend of his father's.
(d) His mother's father.

2. What was the name of another political group that became popular during this time?
(a) The Alliance.
(b) The Nationalists.
(c) The Whigs.
(d) The Tories.

3. How old was Lyndon when his family's dynamic changed?
(a) 18.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 13.

4. How long after the animals in #20 were brought to the Texas Hill Country did the landscape deteriorate?
(a) Five years.
(b) Six months.
(c) Two summers.
(d) Three years.

5. How much land did the Bunton family still own in the Hill Country of Texas at the time this book was written?
(a) 500 acres.
(b) 50 acres.
(c) 200 acres.
(d) 1,000 acres.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 6, who is "The Best Man I Ever Knew?"

2. What nickname did Lyndon garner?

3. What element was a great moneymaker for Texas in the first part of the 20th century?

4. To what job was Lyndon promoted?

5. What was the name of the political group that emerged in the Texas Hill Country?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the ethnic issue in education in Texas?

2. What does the author say were the characteristics of ranchers in the Texas Hill Country?

3. What were some of Lyndon's characteristics when he began interacting in the working world?

4. Who was John Wheeler Bunton and for what was he famous?

5. What was the agenda of the People's Party?

6. How old was Lyndon when he was named and what forced the issue to determine his name?

7. What unusual habit did the young Lyndon have and how did it involve farm hands and others associated with the family?

8. What happened after the Bunton Johnsons brought cattle to the Texas Hill Country?

9. What was one of Sam Johnson's greatest qualities and what was his greatest legislative success?

10. In addition to the People's Party, what other two political groups were eventually absorbed into the Democratic Party?

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