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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. 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) Litotes.
(b) Simile.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Euphemism.

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

3. Tha acronym IAEA carries which of the following meanings in the memoir?
(a) Interstate Access to Emergency Aid.
(b) International Atomic Energy Agency.
(c) International Athletic Exercise Agency.
(d) Intercontinental Atomic Energy Association.

4. Which of the following does Obama note performing in Michelle’s American music series?
(a) Ray Charles.
(b) Lead Belly.
(c) Clifton Chenier.
(d) BB King.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The acronym IRGC carries which of the following meanings in the memoir?

2. The acronym BRICS carries what meaning in the memoir?

3. Approximately how many people in Philadelphia does Obama note died to the Spanish flu?

4. In what month does Obama make his first official presidential trip to Moscow?

5. What is the vote in the House of Representatives on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Obama give for opposing repealing DADT via executive order?

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

3. What effects does Obama note the stresses of his second year in office have on his senior staffers?

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

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

6. What reasons does Obama give for pressing strongly on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament?

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

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

9. What recurring dream does Obama note having during his second year in office?

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

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