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jace · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Which of the following is true of the assassination of President John Kennedy?

A. Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed while in police custody.

B. The president was shot while in a motorcade in downtown Houston.

C. Kennedy was struck by three bullets.

D. The president died instantly.

E. Vice President Lyndon Johnson had made a last-minute decision not to accompany Kennedy.

Question 2

The Warren Commission investigation of the assassination of President John Kennedy concluded

A. None of these answers is correct.

B. Jack Ruby killed Oswald on the orders of an unknown third party.

C. both that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of Kennedy, and that Jack Ruby killed Oswald on the orders of an unknown third party.

D. An unknown second gunman shot from a grassy knoll behind the motorcade.

E. Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of Kennedy.

Question 3

The 1964 election saw

A. Lyndon Johnson distance himself from the memory of John Kennedy.

B. Lyndon Johnson receive a larger plurality than any candidate before or since.

C. Lyndon Johnson win a decisive victory over Richard Nixon.

D. Lyndon Johnson carry the entire South.

E. Republicans gain control of the Senate, but not the House.

Question 4

In 1961, President John Kennedy saw legislative success in

A. a major tax increase.

B. a reduction of Social Security.

C. a major civil rights bill.

D. tariff reductions.

E. improved Soviet-American relations.