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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The phrase “Renegade to Secondary Hold” (249) offer an example of which of the following?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Simile.
(d) Allegory.

2. The acronym HAMP carries which of the following meanings in the memoir?
(a) Home Affordable Modification Program.
(b) Hot Action Made Present.
(c) Hopeful Aspirations Matter Potentially.
(d) High Amperage Multiphasic Power-supply.

3. The acronym EEOB carries which of the following meanings in the memoir?
(a) Estimated Employment Operations Benefits.
(b) Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
(c) Equal Employment Opportunity Building.
(d) Eisenhower Electronic Ordinance Bureau.

4. By how many points does Obama win the North Carolina primary?
(a) 14.
(b) 18.
(c) 10.
(d) 22.

5. Which of the following people does Obama employ as his campaign’s national finance chair?
(a) Hillary Clinton.
(b) David Axelrod.
(c) Paul Tewes.
(d) Penny Pritzker.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which of the following years does Obama note entering Harvard Law School?

2. Which of the following does Obama select to lead the Domestic Policy Council?

3. On which of the following towns’ names does Obama focus pronunciation efforts?

4. To which of the following novelists’ audiobooks does Obama report listening while an Illinois state senator?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Obama define the role of the body man?

2. What does Obama cite as his early problem in his campaign for president?

3. To what political choices does Obama ascribe worsening income inequality as he moves into the general campaign from the primary?

4. What does Obama identify as “the one big tactical error of our campaign” (139)?

5. What does Obama note the conditions of JV Martin Junior High School connote to him?

6. What does Obama label as the “big sort” in politics?

7. What trust does Obama cite as integral to the modern social contract?

8. What is the primary rhetorical approach Obama uses to persuade David Axelrod to support his attempt to win a U.S. Senate seat, and why is it the primary one?

9. What does Obama note doing in the first month after leaving office?

10. What debate-day rituals does Obama note performing?

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