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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 Agriculture Secretary?
(a) Hilda Solis.
(b) Arne Duncan.
(c) Jim Jones.
(d) Tom Vilsack.

2. What is the vote in the Senate on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act?
(a) 60-39.
(b) 63-37.
(c) 237-192.
(d) 51-49.

3. On what day is the well at the bottom of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill capped?
(a) 12 July.
(b) 15 July.
(c) 14 July.
(d) 13 July.

4. Which of the following is included among Bush’s “axis of evil”?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Iran.
(c) Pakistan.
(d) Afghanistan.

5. The acronym COIN carries which of the following meanings in the memoir?
(a) Counterintelligence.
(b) Co-occurring incidental needs.
(c) Company ordinance, inter-agency necessity.
(d) Counterinsurgency.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At which of the following sites does Obama report delivering his first major anti-terrorism speech?

3. Which of the following is a name of Sasha’s basketball team?

4. The comment, “Your political enemies, smelling blood in the water, go after you harder” (519) offers an example of which of the following?

5. How many pages does Obama report McChrystal’s assessment as being?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What justification does Obama offer for sightseeing on foreign diplomatic visits?

4. What parts of the UN Charter does Obama note matched his mother’s viewpoint?

5. What does Obama note are the effects of the Spanish flu on the world?

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

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

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

9. What reasons does Obama give for approving of some of his predecessor’s counterterrorism initiatives?

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

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