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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following songs does Obama have played following his formal acceptance of the Democratic presidential nomination?
2. Which of the following does Obama report the Clinton campaign learned about his Kindergarten in Indonesia?
3. The comment, “The presidency is like a new car. It starts depreciating the minute you drive it off the lot” (233) is an example of which of the following?
4. At which of the following companies does Obama report meeting Michelle?
5. Which of the following accompanies Obama to Afghanistan and Iraq when he travels there during his campaign?
Short Essay Questions
1. What debate-day rituals does Obama note performing?
2. What tactics does Obama note employing to try to attract voter attention to and interest in state politics?
3. What does Obama note doing in the first month after leaving office?
4. What does Obama identify as “the one big tactical error of our campaign” (139)?
5. What advice does Obama note he would offer to his collegiate self, could he go back and give it?
6. What rumors regarding his American identity does Obama note following Super Tuesday?
7. What trust does Obama cite as integral to the modern social contract?
8. What reasons does Obama give that those who knew him as a teenager would have doubted he would seek political office?
9. What reservations regarding running for President does Obama cite prior to beginning his campaign?
10. To what factor does Obama ascribe his good working relationship with Harry Reid early in his term as a U.S. Senator?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
As Obama writes, he makes repeated references to baseball—to other sports, yes, but to baseball, specifically. What function does the repeated reference serve? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Does the memoir as a whole support or deny the comment that “Running for president is supposed to be hard […] because being president is hard” (111)? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Obama writes of “that most precious of gifts: the conviction of innocence, as well as the righteous indignation that comes with it” (274). What tone does the memoir adopt towards that gift? What in the memoir supports the idea? How does it do so?
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