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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Yes We Can.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Conceit.
(b) Simile.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Metaphor.

3. On which day does Super Tuesday fall during Obama’s primary campaign?
(a) 5 February.
(b) 29 January.
(c) 12 February.
(d) 19 February.

4. Which of the following songs does Obama have played following his formal acceptance of the Democratic presidential nomination?
(a) “Born in the USA.”
(b) “Proud to Be an American.”
(c) “Only in America.”
(d) “Song for America.”

5. From which of the following does Obama note his grandmother’s nickname comes?
(a) Hawaiian for “Grandma.”
(b) Hawaiian for “A horn’s sound.”
(c) English for “A horn’s sound.”
(d) Swahili for “Grandma.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following words does Obama note is a gaffe in Ames?

2. Which of the following rallies on Obama’s behalf in Iowa?

3. By how wide a margin does Obama defeat Clinton in the South Carolina primary?

4. In which of the following years does Obama first learn he is to be a father?

5. Which of the following people does Obama employ as his campaign’s Iowa leader?

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