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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction – Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position did Jim Mattis step down from the day after Trump's Syria tweets?
(a) Homeland Security Chief.
(b) Secretary of Defense.
(c) Treasury Secretary.
(d) Director of National Intelligence.

2. Who wrote "God grant that men of principle be our principal men" (49)?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Jacqueline Kennedy.
(d) John Bolton.

3. When did Donald Trump say publicly, "You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right? The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now" (15)?
(a) June 2019.
(b) September 2019.
(c) September 2018.
(d) July 2018.

4. When key government leaders quit during the Watergate scandal, what did the press dub it?
(a) The "Midnight Mutiny."
(b) The "Saturday Night Massacre."
(c) The "Last Walkout."
(d) The "Watergate Walkout."

5. Regarding the issues of immigration, the author states, "At one point, Trump warmed to a new idea for solving what he viewed as the biggest crisis in American history: to label migrants as" what (41)?
(a) "Renegades."
(b) "Enemy civilians."
(c) "Treasonous persons."
(d) "Enemy combatants."

Short Answer Questions

1. What pen name did Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay use in writing anonymous essays rebutting the criticism of the Constitution?

2. For how long was John McCain held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam?

3. What did the parody poster in the style of Game of Thrones say that Trump became enamored with, according to the author in Chapter 1?

4. Who was Donald Trump's second chief of staff?

5. Who was Donald Trump's first chief of staff?

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