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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 included among Bush’s “axis of evil”?
2. Which of the following vessels does Obama note is dispatched to address piracy near Somalia in the days following his first G20 summit?
3. Which of the following does Obama note meeting in Myanmar?
4. Approximately how many people in Philadelphia does Obama note died to the Spanish flu?
5. What is the vote in the Senate on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Obama note are historical reasons midterm elections go poorly for the party in power?
2. What does Obama note wanting to say about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill when asked about it in May 2010?
3. What does Obama lament that Gates sees as “politics” that he sees as “democracy as it was supposed to work” (436-37)?
4. What reasons does Obama give for opposing repealing DADT via executive order?
5. What reasons does Obama give for replacing McChrystal with Petraeus?
6. What does Obama describe as the “Michelle Effect” in the memoir?
7. What justification does Obama offer for sightseeing on foreign diplomatic visits?
8. What justification does Obama note for the vitriol of the Tea Party?
9. What recurring dream does Obama note having during his second year in office?
10. What does Obama note as his reasons for wanting to engage Medvedev at his first G20 summit?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the memoir, Obama frequently compares himself to FDR. What function does the comparison serve in the memoir? How does it serve it?
Essay Topic 2
Select one of the section titles: The Bet, Yes We Can, Renegade, The Good Fight, The World as It Is, In the Barrel, or On the High Wire. To what does the title make reference? How does it appear in the relevant section? What comment is suggested about it in that section? How is it suggested?
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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