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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom is the following quote attributed? "No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable without possessing a certain portion of order and stability" (19).
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) James Madison.
(d) James Adams.

2. Who was Donald Trump's third National Security Advisor?
(a) Chris Christie.
(b) John F. Kelly.
(c) John Bolton.
(d) Reince Priebus.

3. Whom did President-Elect Trump replace his transition chief with after his election victory?
(a) John Bolton.
(b) John F. Kelly.
(c) Reince Priebus.
(d) Mike Pence.

4. What does the author associate a person's moral code as in Chapter 2?
(a) His/her keyboard.
(b) His/her hardware.
(c) His/her software.
(d) His/her motherboard.

5. When did President Trump suggest to aides that weapons be given to all of American's teachers so they could fight back against mass shooters?
(a) December 2019.
(b) February 2018.
(c) June 2018.
(d) July 2017.

6. On what date did Trump tweet: "We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency" (19)?
(a) August 25, 2018.
(b) December 19, 2018.
(c) March 12, 2018.
(d) September 5, 2018.

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

8. What nickname did Donald lTrump conceive of for Senator Dick Blumenthal?
(a) De Nang Dick.
(b) Slimeball.
(c) Pocahontus.
(d) Sneaky Dick.

9. Who wrote: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public" (14)?
(a) Reince Priebus.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

10. When did Donald Trump state, "Nobody reads the Bible more than me" (61)?
(a) July 2016.
(b) May 2017.
(c) February 2016.
(d) March 2019.

11. Who was the head of Trump's transition team when he was elected president?
(a) John Bolton.
(b) John F. Kelly.
(c) Reince Priebus.
(d) Chris Christie.

12. What was Tom Bossert's position in the Trump administration?
(a) Secretary of Defense.
(b) Treasury Secretary.
(c) White House Communications Director.
(d) Homeland Security Advisor.

13. Whose father did Trump suggest (without evidence) was involved in the Kennedy assassination?
(a) John F. Kelly's.
(b) Ted Cruz's.
(c) John Bolton's.
(d) Mike Pence's.

14. What president delayed the nation from plunging into civil war but at the cost that he protected the slave-holding interests of the South, according to the author in Chapter 2?
(a) James Buchanan.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) John Bolton.

15. What former economic advisor is quoted in Chapter 2 as having said, "Trump won't read anything--not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored" (61)?
(a) Chris Christie.
(b) James Buchanan.
(c) John Bolton.
(d) Gary Cohn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the head of the Environmental Protection Agency that blamed staff for his misuse of government funds and was forced to resign?

2. When was John McCain released by his Vietnamese captors?

3. Who is cited with the opening quote of the book: "Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike" (1)?

4. From what position did Donald Trump remove Rex Tillerson?

5. What does the author assert Donald Trump prioritizes over conviction in Chapter 3?

(see the answer keys)

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