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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 meanings is attached to the acronym FOB in the memoir?
2. Approximately how long does Obama note the Oval Office is?
3. Which of the following does Obama report the Clinton campaign learned about his Kindergarten in Indonesia?
4. Which of the following does Obama report is the motto of his campaign staff in Iowa?
5. In which of the following years does Obama note making his first attempt at winning political office?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Obama identify as the “biggest mistake of the campaign” (143)?
2. What is the primary rhetorical approach Obama uses to persuade David Axelrod to support his attempt to win a U.S. Senate seat, and why is it the primary one?
3. What reservations regarding running for President does Obama cite prior to beginning his campaign?
4. To what events does Obama ascribe his perception as a U.S. Senator that he needed to do more in office, and faster?
5. What two things does Obama note led to his ascendancy in the Iowa campaign?
6. What are the three components of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act economic stimulus that Obama articulates?
7. What does Obama identify as “the one big tactical error of our campaign” (139)?
8. What reasons does Obama give that those who knew him as a teenager would have doubted he would seek political office?
9. How does Obama note his campaign staff defines the term “gaffe”?
10. What debate-day rituals does Obama note performing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Obama writes that “to be effective, governance couldn’t be so antiseptic that it set aside the basic stuff of politics. You had to sell your program, reward supporters, punch back against opponents, and amplify the facts that helped your cause while fudging the details that didn’t” (525). Does this appear to hold true, based on the memoir and on experience? What details affirm the position? How do they do so?
Essay Topic 2
In the preface, Obama makes the following parenthetical remark: “I still like writing things out in longhand, finding that a computer gives even my roughest drafts too smooth a gloss and lends half-baked thoughts the mask of tidiness” (xiii). Does experience support the position? How so or not?
Essay Topic 3
If there is a single, dominant theme in the memoir, what is it? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?
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