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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. What did Malia announce to her parents in the spring of 2015?

2. What does Obama believe about children?

3. What position did Barack want to run for after he was made a senator?

4. Who was captured and killed in 2011?

5. What happened in November 2004?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Hadiya Pendleton?

2. What happened in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012?

3. Why did Obama refrain from attending the Sandy Hook prayer vigil?

4. What was Obama's first initiative as First Lady?

5. Why was Obama so paranoid on the election night in 2012?

6. Who had the hardest time saying goodbye to the White House staff, and why?

7. What was one positive outcome of the Obama campaign even in its early stages?

8. What is becoming for Obama?

9. What did Obama make her husband promise to do if he did not make it far in the Senate campaign?

10. What did Obama realize about her husband the first time she witnessed the presidential motorcade?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout her husband's presidency Obama was a strong advocate for education, especially for young girls across the world. What about education is so important to Obama, and why? Use specific examples from the text to support your analysis.

Essay Topic 2

Michelle Obama writes that she is extremely grateful to her parents for the way that they raised her. What about her parent's parenting methods helped to shape her as a person, and did they influence her own methods as a mother? If so, how?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you analyze the relationship and dynamic between Michelle Obama and her family. What kind of wife and mother did she want to be, and how were these dynamics altered once her family moved into the White House?

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