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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kennedy sees as a weakness in John Quincey Adams an emotional attachment to whom?
(a) His college friends and professors.
(b) His wife and his mistress.
(c) His parents and God.
(d) His religious congregational members.

2. What is a particular problem on occasion when the electorate presents a desire to the elected official?
(a) What they want they are not willing to help pay for.
(b) What they want may not in the long run be good for the constituency.
(c) What they want is not fair to fixed income people.
(d) What they want is not clear to the elected official.

3. What does Kennedy see as Webster's moral flaw?
(a) Webster had many affairs his wife did not know about.
(b) Webster was a compulsive gambler.
(c) Webster had no compunction against taking money for political favors.
(d) Webster was an alcoholic and often lost track of time.

4. What do the subject of PROFILES IN COURAGE all have in common?
(a) They were all Democrats.
(b) They all served as U. S. Senators.
(c) They all lost elections and then won them the next time.
(d) They were all Republicans.

5. What Webster speech in the Senate became known by the date it was given?
(a) The Seventh of March speech.
(b) The Independence Day speech.
(c) The Christmas Day speech.
(d) The First of January speech.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect did Webster's three-hour-long speech in the Senate have in 1850?

2. What does Kennedy say was a liability about Webster's immense popularity with both sides of the political spectrum?

3. What view did Webster take that made him unpopular with abolitionists?

4. What metaphor does Kennedy use to describe the relationship between the elected official and the electorate?

5. What was the dichotomy concerning John Quincey Adams' father?

(see the answer key)

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