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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. On which day does the Underwear Bomber attempt an attack?
2. Which of the following does Obama appoint Energy Secretary?
3. Which of the following does Obama note meeting in Japan?
4. The comment, “On the biggest of stages, on an issue that mattered and with the clock ticking, I’d pulled a rabbit out of a hat” (515) offers an example of which of the following?
5. Which of the following vessels does Obama note is dispatched to address piracy near Somalia in the days following his first G20 summit?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Obama note as his reasons for wanting to engage Medvedev at his first G20 summit?
2. What ideas does Obama note concerning war in preparing his Nobel acceptance speech?
3. What does Obama note are historical reasons midterm elections go poorly for the party in power?
4. What effects does Obama note the stresses of his second year in office have on his senior staffers?
5. To what does the term “dignified transfer” refer in the memoir?
6. What “hard truths” does Obama note hoping to address in the “Muslim speech” (358-59)?
7. What justification does Obama offer for sightseeing on foreign diplomatic visits?
8. What reasons does Obama give for replacing McChrystal with Petraeus?
9. What reasons does Obama give for pressing strongly on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament?
10. What reasons does Obama give for approving of some of his predecessor’s counterterrorism initiatives?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Obama muses on making the following comment: “The point of it all. To have that rare chance, reserved for very few, to bend history in a better direction” (423). Is the chance rare? It is reserved for few? What in the memoir supports the position? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
As Obama writes, he makes repeated references to the Hawaiian coast. What function does the repeated reference serve? How does it do so?
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