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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many are reported dead in the Massey Energy Upper Big Branch Mine incident?
(a) 29.
(b) 34.
(c) 39.
(d) 44.

2. How many countries does Obama note participate in the UN?
(a) 195.
(b) 193.
(c) 254.
(d) 222.

3. Which of the following does Obama note is grown in Michelle’s White House garden?
(a) Gooseberries.
(b) Boysenberries.
(c) Blueberries.
(d) Raspberries.

4. How many Senators vote to ratify Obama’s nuclear arms reduction treaty?
(a) 71.
(b) 60.
(c) 26.
(d) 67.

5. How many pages does Obama report McChrystal’s assessment as being?
(a) 99.
(b) 77.
(c) 66.
(d) 88.

6. At which of the following sites does Obama report delivering his first major anti-terrorism speech?
(a) The Oval Office.
(b) The Capitol Rotunda.
(c) The National Mall.
(d) The National Archives.

7. Obama’s musing, “‘You’re like the guy in the circus,’ Michelle told me once, ‘just spinning plates at the end of a stick’” (565) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Simile.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Litotes.

8. Which of the following serves as Secretary of the Interior?
(a) Janet Napolitano.
(b) Thad Allen.
(c) Ken Salazar.
(d) Mike Mullen.

9. Where does Obama note his first G20 summit takes place?
(a) Berlin.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Rome.

10. Which of the following nicknames does Obama note John Brennan receives?
(a) The Sentinel.
(b) The Watcher.
(c) The Custodian.
(d) The Guardian.

11. The comment, “On the biggest of stages, on an issue that mattered and with the clock ticking, I’d pulled a rabbit out of a hat” (515) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Metaphor.

12. Which of the following performs at Obama’s Nobel ceremony?
(a) Esperanza Spalding.
(b) Patti Austin.
(c) Yo-Yo Ma.
(d) Joe Lovano.

13. Which of the following serves as Homeland Security Secretary?
(a) Thad Allen.
(b) Janet Napolitano.
(c) Ken Salazar.
(d) Mike Mullen.

14. The comment that Merkel “was now eyeing Sarkozy the way a mother eyes an unruly child” (343) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Litotes.
(d) Analogy.

15. How much oil is reported to have leaked from the well at the bottom of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
(a) 40 million barrels.
(b) 4 million barrels.
(c) 4 million gallons.
(d) 2 million barrels.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following does Obama ascribe the remark that “You can’t save trees by ignoring people” (487)?

2. How many Afghan review sessions does Obama note holding?

3. Which of the following is Obama’s Commerce Secretary?

4. Which of the following is included among Bush’s “axis of evil”?

5. To which of the following does Obama note traveling in the five days following his first G20 summit?

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