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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Things Go Wrong.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Senator did Hubert Humphrey criticize that made other senators angry in "Rise to Power in the Senate"?
(a) Smith.
(b) Paulsen.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Byrd.

2. How many social programs were created under Johnson's leadership between 1965 and 1968?
(a) Eighty.
(b) One thousand.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Five hundred.

3. Who did Johnson appoint to the Supreme Court that he thought mothers would name their newborn sons after?
(a) Earl Warren.
(b) Warren Burger.
(c) William Brennan.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

4. What was Johnson haunted by during his three-month convalescence at home in 1955?
(a) Childhood fear of paralysis.
(b) His mother's health.
(c) His grandfather's expectations.
(d) His father's death.

5. Who told Johnson that if he didn't run for President it would show a lack of courage and be wrong for the country?
(a) Lady Bird.
(b) Robert Kennedy.
(c) His father.
(d) Thomas Dodd.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Robert Baker?

2. What did Johnson feel like when he took over the office of President after Kennedy's assassination?

3. What two Great Society programs does the author say "succeeded admirably in achieving their objectives"?

4. What role did Robert Kennedy fill under the Johnson Administration?

5. What grade did Johnson give himself as a Vice President?

(see the answer key)

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