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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 – 6.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the author describe in Chapter 5 as "the most important responsibility of the commander in chief" (153)?
(a) Finance.
(b) Coordination with Congress.
(c) National security.
(d) Maintaining internal peace.
2. Among the quotes attributed to Donald Trump in Chapter 2, one of them attributes what to being "one of the greatest inventions of all times" (55)?
(a) TiVo.
(b) The telephone.
(c) The computer.
(d) The cell phone.
3. What ABC reporter did Trump tell he would consider accepting dirt from a foreign government about a political opponent?
(a) Jerome Powell.
(b) George Stephanopoulos.
(c) Jerome Corsi.
(d) Scott Pruitt.
4. What term refers to the human tendency "to interpret new information as evidence to support preexisting views" (196)?
(a) "Rejection bias."
(b) "False newsification."
(c) "Reference bias."
(d) "Confirmation bias."
5. What did Donald Trump once errantly claim was the primary export to Japan while he was giving a speech on energy production?
(a) Cars.
(b) Computers.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Apples.
Short Answer Questions
1. What U.S. state is said to be the most prominent of those affected by Trump's attacks and withholding of funds as a means of retribution?
2. Who said a quarter century ago that America would be "the greatest and most powerful nation, but a nation with peers" (156)?
3. According to a Washington Post analysis, after nearly 900 days in the White House, how many false claims had the president made (194)?
4. Who is cited with the following quote that opens Chapter 5? "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty" (151).
5. What Washington Post columnist was murdered in Saudi Arabia in October of 2018?
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