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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Rise to Power in the Senate.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role was Johnson elected to in the Little Congress?
(a) Speaker.
(b) Researcher.
(c) Taking the minutes of each meeting.
(d) Gopher.

2. What full-time job did Johnson take with a criminal lawyer in the mid-1920s?
(a) Clerk.
(b) Head researcher.
(c) Office manager.
(d) Lawyer.

3. How many votes did Johnson win his Senate seat by?
(a) Eighty-seven.
(b) Six hundred.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Twelve.

4. What did Johnson's Republican opponent accuse him of in the election for Senator in "The Making of a Politician"?
(a) Lying about campaign promises.
(b) Padding his political record.
(c) Stealing campaign materials.
(d) Stuffing the ballot box.

5. When did Johnson resume his position in the Senate after his illness in 1955?
(a) January 30, 1955.
(b) February 12, 1958.
(c) January 2, 1956.
(d) February 5, 1956.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word did Johnson's mother often scrawl on the outside of letters to her son?

2. How is Sam Johnson described?

3. What school was Johnson teaching in when he received a call from Richard Kleberg?

4. What time did the train leave that Johnson was on at the end of "Education and the Dream of Success"?

5. Who is Rebekah Baines?

(see the answer key)

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