Chapter Twelve Self-test
Take the following self-test as many times as needed to master chapter content. Included page
numbers will enable you to check your responses.
1) The first Republican elected Texas governor since Reconstruction was:
a) William P. Clements, Jr.
b) George W. Bush
c) John Tower
d) Rick Perry
Hint: pages 375, 394
2) The first Republican senator from Texas elected since Reconstruction was:
a) Lyndon B. Johnson
b) Price Daniel
c) John Tower
d) Alan Shivers
Hint: page 378
3) In Dallas, on November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John F.
Kennedy and seriously wounded Governor _____________.
a) Price Daniel
b) Dolph Briscoe
c) Bill Clements
d) John Connally
Hint: page 379
4) That the state legislature must be apportioned on a one-man, one-vote basis was affirmed by
a) Rainey v. Campell
b) Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims
c) Macune v. Reynolds
d) Reynolds v. Carr
Hint: page 383
5) The Roe v. Wade case was successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court by Texas
lawyer _____________.
a) Sarah Hughes
b) Betty Friedan
c) Sissy Farenthold
d) Sarah Weddington.
Hint: page 390
6) Whose administration institutionalized the sales tax as a predictable source of revenue for the
state?
a) Beauford Jester
b) Allan Shivers
c) Price Daniel
d) Ralph Yarborough.
Hint: page 379
7) _____________ won a national following during the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s 1974
investigation of President Richard M. Nixon.
a) Barbara Jordan
b) J. E. Lockridge
c) Lloyd Bentsen, Jr.
d) John Tower
Hint: pages 385–386
8) The Arab oil embargo occurred at the same time that the United States experienced
“stagflation,” a combination of:
a) high rates of inflation and low rates of unemployment
b) high rates of inflation and high rates of unemployment
c) deflation and low rates of unemployment
d) deflation and high rates of unemployment
Hint: pages 393–394
9) The most popular sport in Texas, measured by numbers of participants and spectators, was
and remains:
a) professional football
b) college football
c) high school football
d) professional baseball
Hint: page 396
10) This artist’s 1975 Red-Headed Stranger album became the first county album to climb to the
top of the pop charts:
a) Willie Nelson
b) Waylon Jennings
c) Tanya Tucker
d) George Strait
Hint: pages 399–400