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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 – Epilogue.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who wrote, "Governments vary as the characters of men vary. States are made out of the human natures which are in them" (241)?
(a) Pliny.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.
2. From what position did Donald Trump remove Rex Tillerson?
(a) Secretary of State.
(b) Treasury Secretary.
(c) Secretary of Defense.
(d) Director of National Intelligence.
3. What is the title of Chapter 6?
(a) "Collapse of the Steady State."
(b) "The New Mason-Dixon Line."
(c) "Sanctions Are Coming."
(d) "A Weakness for Strongmen."
4. 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?
(a) John Bolton.
(b) James Buchanan.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.
5. How many executive orders did Bill Clinton issue in his first three years as president?
(a) 120.
(b) 90.
(c) 25.
(d) 112.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who said of Trump during the 2016 Republican primaries, "I think in terms of a commander in chief, we ought to have someone who isn't springing out of bed to tweet in a frantic response to the latest polls" (210)?
2. In concluding Chapter 6, the author states, "If Trump's actions have turned the US government into one of his failed businesses, his rhetoric is turning our national stage into one of his" what (206)?
3. Who introduced the term "alternative facts" on Meet the Press when speaking with Chuck Todd?
4. When did Trump fire FBI Director Jim Comey?
5. The author states in Chapter 7, "There are two separate types of unsavory Trump appointee. Both belong to the same genus, the Apologist, defined by their shared willingness to excuse the inexcusable. But each is its own species with distinctive characteristics" (223). What is the second species?
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