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

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

3. In what month does Obama make his first official presidential trip to Moscow?
(a) April.
(b) May.
(c) July.
(d) June.

4. Approximately how many people in Philadelphia does Obama note died to the Spanish flu?
(a) 18,000.
(b) 16,000.
(c) 12,000.
(d) 14,000.

5. To which of the following does Obama note traveling in the five days following his first G20 summit?
(a) Strasbourg, France.
(b) Turin, Italy.
(c) Vaduz, Liechtenstein.
(d) Barcelona, Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following nations signed on to the Kyoto Protocol?

2. Which of the following does Obama appoint climate czar?

3. How many are reported dead in the Deepwater Horizon explosion?

4. With which of the following does Obama meet while in India in his second year in office?

5. Which of the following serves as Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Obama note wanting to say about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill when asked about it in May 2010?

2. What does Obama note as his reasons for wanting to engage Medvedev at his first G20 summit?

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

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

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

6. What does Obama note are reasons he could expect some success in the midterm elections?

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

10. How does Obama explain the increasing number of regulatory agencies and delegation of authority to them by Congress?

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