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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 Lyndon make political inroads due to an untimely death of a colleague?
(a) He completed the colleague's important work.
(b) He knew the colleague's assistant well.
(c) He delivered the eulogy.
(d) He helped the colleague's family.

2. Whose death left an open Congressional seat desired by Lyndon?
(a) Alfred Morton.
(b) William Buckley.
(c) James Buchanan.
(d) Edward Stanton.

3. Who won the Senate seat coveted by Lyndon?
(a) Frederick Clark.
(b) "Pappy" O'Daniel.
(c) Albert Hall.
(d) Willie Starks.

4. In what business did the person in #133 work?
(a) Mining.
(b) Education.
(c) Newspaper.
(d) Oil.

5. Lyndon had an incredible ability to charm ___________________.
(a) his wife.
(b) little old ladies.
(c) little girls.
(d) powerful older men.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what statewide agency was the person in #145 associated?

2. Who especially hated FDR in Texas?

3. What items did Lyndon send to FDR?

4. Lyndon made progress by befriending people with offices in the White House and _________________.

5. Which business group wanted tax benefits and protection from regulation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What undertaking did Lyndon initiate to show appreciation while serving on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee?

2. Who was the "lost generation" and how did Eleanor Roosevelt champion their cause?

3. Whose death cleared an opening for Lyndon?

4. How did Lyndon court important people to help him politically?

5. Even though the New Deal helped people in the Texas Hill Country, they still had problems. Name two examples of the challenges faced by people in this time.

6. What was the Little Congress and how did Lyndon revive it?

7. Who was Charles Marsh and what was Lyndon's professional relationship with him?

8. Although Lyndon wrote letters in the DCCC trying to show humility, what was the underlying purpose of the missives?

9. What was Lyndon's level of support of the New Deal after he got out of the military?

10. Why was Alice Glass interested in Lyndon?

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