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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five: The World as It Is.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By how wide a margin does Obama defeat Clinton in the South Carolina primary?
(a) 5:4.
(b) 4:3.
(c) 3:2.
(d) 2:1.

2. What does Obama report are the colors of his high school?
(a) Blue and gold.
(b) Buff and blue.
(c) Buff and black.
(d) Black and gold.

3. Where does Obama note Toot was born?
(a) Nebraska.
(b) Missouri.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Iowa.

4. The comment, “The presidency is like a new car. It starts depreciating the minute you drive it off the lot” (233) is an example of which of the following?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Simile.
(d) Euphemism.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following does Obama note meeting in Myanmar?

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?

5. Michelle’s comment that “You have some magic beans, and you’re going to plant them, and overnight a huge beanstalk is going to grow high into the sky, and you’ll climb up the beanstalk, kill the giant who lives in the clouds, and then bring home a goose that lays golden eggs” (45) is an example of which of the following?

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