A Warning Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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A Warning Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "God grant that men of principle be our principal men" (49)?

2. How many times did John McCain run for president?

3. What did the essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in support of the Constitution become known as?

4. When did Donald Trump make the statement to an audience in Iowa, "I like people who weren't captured" (3)?

5. 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).

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the president's misunderstanding of tariffs, as examined in Chapter 3.

2. What do the "cardinal virtues" refer to?

3. How does Trump's character demonstrate justice or lack thereof, according to the author's assessment in Chapter 2?

4. What is confirmation bias?

5. What does Trump's response to the author's op-ed in the New York Time say about him?

6. How does Trump's character demonstrate temperance or lack thereof, according to the author's assessment in Chapter 2?

7. To what does the author attribute the high rate of turnover in the Trump administration in Chapter 1?

8. How does Trump compare with recent presidents concerning executive orders?

9. Why does the author turn to Cicero in Chapter 2?

10. What does the author remark regarding his/her thesis in the New York Times op-ed "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" in the Introduction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Donald Trump's policies on immigration and foreign trade. What issues does the author of A Warning take with Trump's policies and actions regarding these issues? How do you feel about Trump's positions on these issues? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the solutions provided by the author for how the United States should address the issues of the Trump presidency. What does the author remark about the 25th Amendment and the potential for removing the president from office due to incompetency? How does he/she address the issue of impeachment? What is the ultimate solution, according to the author, for today's political circumstances?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the author of A Warning. What is this individual's relationship to the Trump administration? Why has the author of the book chosen to write it anonymously? What have the critics and proponents of the book said about this individual's choice to publish anonymously?

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