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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 – 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gifted the Resolute desk that sits in the Oval Office?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) James Buchanan.

2. When did Donald Trump make the statement to an audience in Iowa, "I like people who weren't captured" (3)?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2017.

3. What one-word tweet did President Trump post in response after the New York Times article by the author was published?
(a) "WHO?"
(b) "WHY?"
(c) "SPY?"
(d) "TREASON?"

4. What former economic advisor is quoted in Chapter 2 as having said, "Trump won't read anything--not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored" (61)?
(a) Chris Christie.
(b) John Bolton.
(c) James Buchanan.
(d) Gary Cohn.

5. When was John McCain released by his Vietnamese captors?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1974.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Trump tweet: "We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency" (19)?

2. What president delayed the nation from plunging into civil war but at the cost that he protected the slave-holding interests of the South, according to the author in Chapter 2?

3. What term refers to the combined qualities of wisdom, temperance, courage, and justice?

4. Who said, "I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic" (91)?

5. When did the anonymous author of A Warning publish a piece in the New York Times describing the instability within the Trump administration?

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