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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what Japanese Prime Minister did Trump get irritated at the 2017 G7 summit?
(a) Yoshihiko Noda.
(b) Naoto Kan.
(c) Yukio Hatoyama.
(d) Shinzo Abe.

2. In the 2017 G7 summit, the hosting country announced that what two issues would be the main focuses of the summit?
(a) Trade and finance.
(b) Sexual harassment and the courts.
(c) Climate change and the international economy.
(d) Gender equality and women's empowerment.

3. What does the author describe in Chapter 5 as "the most important responsibility of the commander in chief" (153)?
(a) Maintaining internal peace.
(b) National security.
(c) Coordination with Congress.
(d) Finance.

4. What is the title of Chapter 6?
(a) "A Weakness for Strongmen."
(b) "Sanctions Are Coming."
(c) "The New Mason-Dixon Line."
(d) "Collapse of the Steady State."

5. Who wrote Deep State Target: How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump?
(a) Jerome Corsi.
(b) Jerome Powell.
(c) Scott Pruitt.
(d) George Papadopoulos.

6. Who is the author of Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump?
(a) Jeff Sessions.
(b) Jerome Powell.
(c) Jerome Corsi.
(d) Scott Pruitt.

7. What does the author assert is "the second-worst trait any president can have when he's trying to make deals on behalf of the American people" (192)?
(a) "The inability to bite his tongue."
(b) "Lack of ethics."
(c) "Dishonesty."
(d) "The temperament of a child."

8. When did Donald Trump blast Obama for his trip to Cuba to meet Raul Castro?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2013.

9. What Washington Post columnist was murdered in Saudi Arabia in October of 2018?
(a) Jamal. Khashoggi.
(b) Cemal Gürsel.
(c) Roger Waterson.
(d) Karl Popper.

10. Who is the Philippine president that Donald Trump praised for his "unbelievable job" cracking down on drugs (161)?
(a) Benigno Aquino III.
(b) Rodrigo Duterte.
(c) H. R. McMaster.
(d) Joseph Estrada.

11. Who argued against Cleon that ill-tempered decisions were reckless, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) Euclides.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Diodotus.

12. What are the three branches of the U.S. government?
(a) Financial, secular, and military.
(b) Education, judicial, and legislative.
(c) Executive, legislative, and judicial.
(d) Executive, articulate, and oratory.

13. Who is the authoritarian Turkish president whom Trump referred to as a friend?
(a) Karl Popper.
(b) Recep Erdogan.
(c) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk..
(d) Cemal Gürsel..

14. When did Donald Trump first outline his foreign policy view in detail for the first time, invoking the phrase "America First" (156)?
(a) March 11, 2018.
(b) April 27, 2016.
(c) May 9, 2017.
(d) September 5, 2018.

15. Who wrote, "The more we try to return to the heroic age of tribalism, the more surely do we arrive at the Inquisition, at the Secret Police, and at a romanticized gangsterism" (206)?
(a) Karl Popper.
(b) Malcolm Turnbull.
(c) Kellyanne Conway.
(d) Don McGahn.

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. When did Trump tweet "... I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong" (137)?

3. Who described Cleon as "the man who, with his attacks, corrupted the Athenians more than anyone else" (184)?

4. In addition to the United States, what nations comprise the G7?

5. What Democratic president historically vowed that America would stand for "the principles of a liberated mankind... whether in war or in peace" (155)?

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