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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 religious congregational members.
(b) His college friends and professors.
(c) His parents and God.
(d) His wife and his mistress.

2. What does Kennedy suggest prevents a lot of people from acting courageously?
(a) Fear of the unknown.
(b) Not enough education about courage.
(c) Social and public pressures.
(d) Averice and greed.

3. What effect did Webster's three-hour-long speech in the Senate have in 1850?
(a) It helped hold off the Civil War for a good ten years.
(b) It made many political allies for Webster.
(c) It gave the South the idea of secession.
(d) It rallied the North to declare war on the South.

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 that will satisfy everyone in one way or another.
(c) Making decisions when a fellow Senator or Congressman needs to get a pet project going.
(d) Making decisions when to satisfy a constituancy will not be what is best for the nation.

5. Why did Benton oppose the treaty of annexation of Texas?
(a) Because Texas would cost too much money.
(b) Because of his commitment to the Union.
(c) Because he disliked Sam Houston.
(d) Because Texas was too big.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a constant that an elected official must understand?

2. Why was John Quincey Adams generally unhappy?

3. What traits indicate that Adams suffered common human emotions?

4. What measure did Henry Clay enlist Webster to help with?

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

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