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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following public offices did John Quincey Adams NOT hold?
(a) Senator.
(b) Congressman.
(c) President.
(d) Supreme Court Justice.

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

3. Where did Benton say he's rather see the Democratic Party rather than give one inch to Mr. Van Buren?
(a) Out of politics altogether.
(b) 50 fathoms deep into the middle of hell fire.
(c) Right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
(d) A thousand miles north of the Mason Dixon Line.

4. John Quincey Adams was a Senator from what state?
(a) Connecticutt.
(b) New York.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Massachusetts.

5. What Senator pulled a gun on Benton once?
(a) Senator Aaron Burr.
(b) Senator Martin VanBuren.
(c) Senator William Cooper.
(d) Senator Henry Foote.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a particular problem on occasion when the electorate presents a desire to the elected official?

2. What was it about Benton that inspired the approval of his Missouri constituency?

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

4. What does Kennedy suggest prevents a lot of people from acting courageously?

5. What is the first pressure of Americans that keeps them from acting courageously according to Kennedy?

(see the answer key)

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