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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 nicknames does Obama note John Brennan receives?
(a) The Sentinel.
(b) The Watcher.
(c) The Custodian.
(d) The Guardian.

2. With which of the following does Obama meet while in India in his second year in office?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi.
(b) Manmohan Singh.
(c) Khan Noonien Singh.
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru.

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

4. How deep is the Deepwater Horizon well drilled?
(a) 4,130 feet.
(b) 22,672 feet.
(c) 35,055 feet.
(d) 18,293 feet.

5. What is the title of the Rolling Stone profile of McChrystal?
(a) “The Runaway General.”
(b) “The Runaway Bride."
(c) "The Renegade General.”
(d) “The Republican Admiral."

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Senators vote to ratify Obama’s nuclear arms reduction treaty?

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

3. How much oil is reported to have leaked from the well at the bottom of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?

4. Which of the following breeds was Bo?

5. To which of the following does Obama note traveling in the five days following his first G20 summit?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Obama cite as his impetus to finally quit smoking?

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

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