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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Vice-Presidency.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city did Johnson travel to in order to talk with Richard Kleberg?
(a) Austin.
(b) Corpus Christi.
(c) Fredericksburg.
(d) San Marcos.

2. How old was Lady Bird when her mother died?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eight.

3. Where was Lyndon Johnson born?
(a) Stonewall, Texas.
(b) Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) Washington, D.C.

4. What is the name of the caucus that Johnson declined to be part of in the Senate?
(a) Democratic Caucus.
(b) Young Legislators Caucus.
(c) Southern Caucus.
(d) Harvard Caucus.

5. Who was Carol Davis?
(a) Johnson's mother's friend.
(b) House mother to Johnson's fraternity.
(c) Secretary for the college dean.
(d) Johnson's first real girlfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Sam Johnson described?

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

3. What full-time job did Johnson take with a criminal lawyer in the mid-1920s?

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

5. What did Willy Hopkins hire Johnson to do after he heard him speaking at a political gathering in Henley, Texas?

(see the answer key)

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