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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 serves as Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard?
(a) Janet Napolitano.
(b) Mike Mullen.
(c) Thad Allen.
(d) Ken Salazar.

2. Which of the following is a name of Sasha’s basketball team?
(a) The Pythons.
(b) The Cobras.
(c) The Vipers.
(d) The Rattlers.

3. Which of the following does Obama appoint Education Secretary?
(a) Arne Duncan.
(b) Jim Jones.
(c) Tom Vilsack.
(d) Hilda Solis.

4. How much oil is reported to have leaked from the well at the bottom of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
(a) 4 million barrels.
(b) 40 million barrels.
(c) 2 million barrels.
(d) 4 million gallons.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does Obama appoint to lead the EPA?

3. How many detainees does Obama note were held at Guantánamo Bay when he took office?

4. How many Senators vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Justice?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Obama note are historical reasons midterm elections go poorly for the party in power?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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