Profiles in Courage Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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Profiles in Courage Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What leader who was at odds with Adams' father did John Quincey find himself agreeing with quite often?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Alexander Hamilton.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

2. Why was John Quincey Adams generally unhappy?
(a) He never traveled abroad.
(b) He never felt he had accomplished enough.
(c) He never married his childhood sweetheart.
(d) He never couold live up to his mother's expectations.

3. What was the result of Webster's courageous stand in giving the Seventh of March speech?
(a) Webster was honored by his constituents as a man of courage.
(b) Webster would have become president but he died 2 years later.
(c) Webster sacrificed his potential presidential run and his popularity.
(d) Webster changed his position of slavery to agree with Clay.

4. What is Kennedy's third pressure that he feels is the most damaging?
(a) Making decisions when you do not have enough information to make good ones.
(b) Making decisions when a fellow Senator or Congressman needs to get a pet project going.
(c) Making decisions when to satisfy a constituancy will not be what is best for the nation.
(d) Making decisions that will satisfy everyone in one way or another.

5. For what conflict does Kennedy feel the most empathy?
(a) The conflict between political parties.
(b) The conflict between Congress and the Supreme Court.
(c) The conflict of constituency interest versus national interests.
(d) The conflict of special interests versus constituency interests.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Benton oppose the treaty of annexation of Texas?

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

3. What metaphoric comparison does Kennedy make to John Quincey Adams' Puritanism?

4. What questionable arrangement kept Webster in the Senate when he was about to resign?

5. What advantage do minority special interest groups have to influence elected officials?

(see the answer key)

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