SparkNotes: James Garfield: Test

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1. Garfield worked on what boat as a teen?

(A) A canal boat

(B) A schooner

(D) A river raft

2. What school did Garfield enter in 1849?

(A) Geauga Seminary

(B) Western Reserve Eclectic Institute

(D) Hiram College

3. How many students got honors in Garfield's Williams class?

(A) two

(B) four

(D) eight

4. What religious group did Garfield join?

(A) Disciples

(B) Congregationalists

(D) Baptists

5. How old was Garfield when he entered Congress?

(A) twenty-seven

(B) twenty-nine

(D) thirty-five

6. Garfield fell ill with what disease during the Civil War?

(A) Pneumonia

(B) Malaria

(D) Polio

7. At what age did Garfield begin keeping a journal?

(A) ten

(B) sixteen

(D) twenty-five

8. Which close friend of Garfield's served as Lincoln's treasury secretary?

(A) Salmon P. Chase

(B) James G. Blaine

(D) John Sherman

9. Which of the following schools did Garfield NOT consider attending?

(A) Brown

(B) Yale

(D) Williams

10. Which job did Garfield list as his occupation while in Congress?

(A) Lawyer

(B) Farmer

(D) Teacher

11. While in Congress, Garfield was involved in a scandal over what?

(A) Paving stones

(B) Mail bribes

(D) Overdrawn bank accounts

12. From 1871 to 1875, Garfield served as chair of what important senate committee?

(A) Appropriations

(B) Military Affairs

(D) Ways and Means

13. The Western Reserve Eclectic Institute later became known as what college?

(A) Hiram College

(B) Bethany College

(D) Ohio College

14. Whom did Garfield officially support at the 1880 presidential convention?

(A) John Sherman

(B) Himself

(D) U.S. Grant

15. Garfield once used a fire extinguisher to punish which son?

(A) James R.

(B) Robert

(D) John

16. What was the highest rank Garfield achieved during the Civil War?

(A) Colonel

(B) Brigadier General

(D) General

17. For which general did Garfield serve as chief of staff?

(A) George H. Thomas

(B) Don C. Buell

(D) William S. Rosecrans

18. What landmark court case did Garfield argue in front of the Supreme Court?

(A) Ex parte Merryman

(B) Ex parte Milligan

(D) Brown v. Board of Education

19. Where did Garfield teach?

(A) Hiram College

(B) Williams College

(D) Western Reserve College

20. Which party opposed Garfield's fiscal policies in 1878?

(A) The "Greenbacks"

(B) The Stalwarts

(D) The "Free Soilers"

21. What event did Garfield's Secretary of State organize?

(A) The inaugural ball

(B) The first pan-American conference

(D) A peace treaty with Canada

22. Garfield defeated which Democrat for the presidency?

(A) Winfield Scott Hancock

(B) Samuel Tilden

(D) William McKinley

23. Who was Garfield's vice president?

(A) Chester A. Arthur

(B) Rutherford B. Hayes

(D) Samuel Tilden

24. Garfield fought which New York Senator for control of the New York Customs House?

(A) William Robertson

(B) Charles Sumner

(D) John Sherman

25. Who shot Garfield?

(A) Lee Harvey Oswald

(B) John Wilkes Booth

(D) Sirhan Sirhan

26. Garfield's death helped spur what legislation?

(A) civil service reform

(B) conversion to gold currency

(D) Reconstruction