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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. Which of the following does Obama appoint climate czar?
(a) Steven Chu.
(b) Lisa Jackson.
(c) Horace Greedly.
(d) Carol Browner.

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

3. Which of the following vessels does Obama note is dispatched to address piracy near Somalia in the days following his first G20 summit?
(a) USS Bainbridge.
(b) USS Farragut.
(c) USS Chung-Hoon.
(d) USS Arleigh Burke.

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

5. On which day does the Underwear Bomber attempt an attack?
(a) Boxing Day.
(b) Christmas Day.
(c) Christmas Eve.
(d) New Year's Day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Obama note held a majority in Maliki’s Iraq?

2. Which of the following serves as Homeland Security Secretary?

3. Which of the following breeds was Bo?

4. Which of the following does Obama appoint Energy Secretary?

5. Which of the following does Obama find in his accommodations in Saudi Arabia when he first notes visiting as President?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Obama give for replacing McChrystal with Petraeus?

2. What does Obama note as providing the objectivity judicial review one needs to have to be reliable?

3. What does Obama describe as the “Michelle Effect” in the memoir?

4. To what does the term “dignified transfer” refer in the memoir?

5. What does Obama lament that Gates sees as “politics” that he sees as “democracy as it was supposed to work” (436-37)?

6. To what does the “cap-and-trade” system of greenhouse gas reduction refer?

7. What justification does Obama note for the vitriol of the Tea Party?

8. What ideas does Obama note concerning war in preparing his Nobel acceptance speech?

9. What does Obama cite as his impetus to finally quit smoking?

10. Why, per Elie Wiesel, did the inmates at Auschwitz teach their children math, poetry, and history?

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