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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Under Seige in the White House.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What role did Robert Kennedy fill under the Johnson Administration?
(a) Labor Secretary.
(b) Supreme Court Justice.
(c) Attorney General.
(d) Secretary of State.

3. Who was Robert Baker?
(a) Secretary to the Senate Democrats.
(b) Johnson's page.
(c) Lady Bird's cousin.
(d) Johnson's gardener.

4. What was Richard Kleberg most interested in in Washington?
(a) Social life.
(b) Debate.
(c) Legislative policies.
(d) Working for the common man.

5. Why was Johnson in the hospital the day after he was elected to Congress in 1937?
(a) Appendicitis.
(b) Visiting his mother.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Visiting a friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Johnson go in a Model-T after graduating high school?

2. What two other countries did Johnson fear might get involved in the war?

3. Where was President Kennedy assassinated?

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

5. What legislation passed on August 20, 1964?

(see the answer key)

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