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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. The acronym NAFTA carries which of the following meanings in the memoir?
(a) Never agree for the advantage.
(b) National Assembly for the Autistic.
(c) National Association of Free Thinkers, Assembled.
(d) North American Free Trade Agreement.

2. Which of the following is included among Bush’s “axis of evil”?
(a) South Korea.
(b) Laos.
(c) Taiwan.
(d) North Korea.

3. Which of the following nations signed on to the Kyoto Protocol?
(a) North Korea.
(b) United States.
(c) Vatican City.
(d) Afghanistan.

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

5. Which of the following does Obama note meeting at Normandy?
(a) David Goggins.
(b) Marcus Luttrell.
(c) Chris Kyle.
(d) Cory Remsburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is Obama’s Commerce Secretary?

2. How many Afghan review sessions does Obama note holding?

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

4. How far underwater is the Deepwater Horizon well drilled?

5. The comment, “On the biggest of stages, on an issue that mattered and with the clock ticking, I’d pulled a rabbit out of a hat” (515) offers an example of which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What “hard truths” does Obama note hoping to address in the “Muslim speech” (358-59)?

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

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

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

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

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