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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. Which of the following authors does Obama note reading while in high school?
(a) Richard Wright.
(b) Ralph Ellison.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) Harlan Ellison.

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

3. To which of the following novelists’ audiobooks does Obama report listening while an Illinois state senator?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Zora Neale Hurston.
(c) Octavia Butler.
(d) Audre Lorde.

4. 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) Conceit.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Analogy.

5. Obama’s comment that he “was from everywhere and nowhere at once, a combination of ill-fitting parts, like a platypus or some imaginary beast” (9) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Simile.
(d) Conceit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At which of the following schools does Obama note teaching after marrying Michelle?

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

4. From which of the following does Obama note his grandmother’s nickname comes?

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

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