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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 is a name of Sasha’s basketball team?
2. How many pages does Obama report McChrystal’s assessment as being?
3. Which of the following does Obama find in his accommodations in Saudi Arabia when he first notes visiting as President?
4. To which of the following does Obama note traveling in the five days following his first G20 summit?
5. Which of the following does Obama appoint Education Secretary?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why, per Elie Wiesel, did the inmates at Auschwitz teach their children math, poetry, and history?
2. What justification does Obama offer for sightseeing on foreign diplomatic visits?
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. What effects does Obama note the stresses of his second year in office have on his senior staffers?
6. What does Obama note are the effects of the Spanish flu on the world?
7. What does Obama note are reasons he could expect some success in the midterm elections?
8. What ideas does Obama note concerning war in preparing his Nobel acceptance speech?
9. What does Obama describe as the “Michelle Effect” in the memoir?
10. To what does the “cap-and-trade” system of greenhouse gas reduction refer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the memoir, Obama frequently compares himself to Lincoln. What function does the comparison serve in the memoir? How does it serve it?
Essay Topic 2
What is to be made of Obama’s frequent reports of consulting with the women in his life, particularly Michelle? What in the text suggests as much? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Consider the passage in Chapter 21 beginning with “In other words” and ending with “before moving forward” (496). What rhetorical structure is being deployed? What effect does the structure have? How does it achieve the effect?
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