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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Vice President's role in the Senate?
(a) To observe.
(b) Vote to break ties.
(c) He has no role.
(d) To serve as speaker for the President.

2. How does LBJ often treat his wife?
(a) He praises her.
(b) He honors her.
(c) He humiliates her.
(d) He beats her.

3. What does LBJ say about opposing Eisenhower's Foreign policy?
(a) It is suicide.
(b) It is American.
(c) It is shameful.
(d) It boosts a Senator's career.

4. How close do the Democrats come to controlling the Senate in 1954?
(a) Five votes.
(b) Four votes.
(c) One vote.
(d) Two votes.

5. Whose testimony supports the notion of the Truman Administration's policies containing communist aggression?
(a) Marshall.
(b) Russell.
(c) MacArthur.
(d) Olds.

6. What assignment does Magnuson want more than Foreign Affairs?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Education.
(c) Security.
(d) Appropriations.

7. What do the desks of the Senate look like to an observer?
(a) Institutional.
(b) Used furniture.
(c) Majestic glory.
(d) Schoolhouse furniture.

8. Who does LBJ choose to work on his North Korean investigation committee?
(a) Lobbiest.
(b) FBI and CIA.
(c) Junior Senators.
(d) FBI and ONI.

9. What Senator is rumored to be a homosexual?
(a) McCarthy.
(b) Russell.
(c) Chip Bohlen.
(d) LBJ.

10. Who wants the information that LBJ gathers regarding votes?
(a) The White House.
(b) Other Senators.
(c) No one.
(d) The House of Representatives.

11. Whose death allows moderate Republicans to call for a moratorium on rhetoric?
(a) FRD.
(b) Joseph Stalin.
(c) Chip Bohlen.
(d) McCarthy.

12. When is General Douglas MacArthur relieved from his command in Korea?
(a) April 1951.
(b) May 1949.
(c) March 1950.
(d) June 1951.

13. How many siblings does LBJ have?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

14. What does LBJ's brother, Sam, do to help his situation in terms of his career?
(a) He offers to take on LBJ's work.
(b) He oversees LBJ's staff.
(c) He lies about LBJ's condition.
(d) He boasts that LBJ is ready and ambitious.

15. How does LBJ get to the hospital in 1955 after he suffers a massive heart attack?
(a) An ambluance.
(b) He drives himself.
(c) A friend drives.
(d) A hearse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who refuses to compromise the seniority system when LBJ wants to put a freshmen Senators in key committees?

2. How many southern votes does Russell control during the 1952 election?

3. What liberal Senator does LBJ attempt to befriend when leaders run into difficulties bringing the liberals and conservatives together?

4. What state is Estes Kefauver from?

5. What seemingly impenetrable group does LBJ need support form to reach the White House?

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