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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Front Matter and Part One: The Bet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which of the following years does Obama note entering Harvard Law School?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1989.

2. Which of the following authors does Obama note reading while in high school?
(a) Thoreau.
(b) Melville.
(c) Hawthorne.
(d) Emerson.

3. The comment, “I was like a young Walter Mitty; a Don Quixote with no Sancho Panza” (12) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Conceit.

4. In which of the following years does Obama first learn he is to be a father?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1997.

5. Which of the following authors does Obama note reading while in high school?
(a) Gogol.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Solovyov.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following authors does Obama note reading while in college?

2. By how wide a margin does Obama lose his race against Bobby Rush?

3. How long does Obama report anticipating composing his memoir will take?

4. How many pages does Obama report anticipating his memoir will take?

5. In which of the following years does Obama note marrying Michelle?

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