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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does LBJ insist on knowing before moving on any piece of legislation?
(a) The details of the legislation.
(b) That he has the votes.
(c) The roll call for the day of the vote.
(d) The author.

2. How long does Richard Bevard Russell Sr. serve as Chief Justice?
(a) 26 years.
(b) 19 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 16 years.

3. How does LBJ's personality fit into the Senate?
(a) It is a major contrast.
(b) He is over eager.
(c) He is less confident than other Senators.
(d) He acts like the other Senators.

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

5. What Senate Rule limits debate based on unanimous consent agreement?
(a) Senate Rule 21.
(b) Senate Rule 14.
(c) Senate Rule 9.
(d) Senate Rule 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Lady Bird's radio station?

2. What leads to the decline of the Senate's effectiveness and prestige?

3. Why does McCarthy leave the Senate?

4. What committee controls the money to run programs proposed by other committees?

5. What does Russell Jr call McCarthy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is LBJ relationship with his other family members like?

2. What is the Senate responsible for?

3. How does the Seventeenth Amendment effect Senators?

4. Why does Russell try to avoid a formal committee report of the Truman Administration hearings?

5. How is LBJ described when he is a Senator?

6. Why do some think Olds is a communist?

7. Why do the Democrats take control of Congress in 1932?

8. How does LBJ's relationship with Lady Bird change after his heart attack in 1955?

9. What is the greatest benefit of LBJ initiating Olds destruction?

10. How does LBJ take, literally, a hands on approach to gaining support and votes?

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