1) The modernization of the state prison system was accomplished under the reform leadership of

a)  Price Daniel
b)  O. B. Ellis
c)  Homer Rainey
d)  Pappy O’Daniel

Hint:  page 388

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:  pages 398-402

3)  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 403

4) The Smith v. Allright decision

a)  affirmed the legality of voter registration drives.
b)  ruled the illegality of voter registration drives.
c).  voided the legality of all-white primaries.
d)  affirmed the legality of all-white primaries.

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:  pages 410

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:  pages 395-396

7) .  Whose administration was the first to address the problems of an urban Texas?

a)  Price Daniel
b)  Allan Shivers
c)  John Connally
d)  Beauford Jester

Hint:  page 382, 395-96

8) All of the following are identified with the senatorial race of 1948 EXCEPT:

a)  Box 13
b)  Jim Wells
c)  State Democratic Election Committee
d)  Beauford Jester

Hint:  pages 385-387

9) The “tidelands” controversy involved all of the following national political figures EXCEPT:

a)  Harry S. Truman
b)  Adlai Stevenson
c)  Harold Ickes
d)  Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hint:  pages 388-390

10) During the modern period of Texas politics, from 1949 to 1973, the most racist governor was:

a)  Allan Shivers
b)  Preston Smith
c)  Beauford Jester
d)  Price Daniel

Hint:  pages 388-394