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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 is the author of Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump?
(a) Jerome Powell.
(b) Jeff Sessions.
(c) Jerome Corsi.
(d) Scott Pruitt.

2. Who observed of America in the 1830s, "In America the president exerts a very great influence on affairs of state, but he does not conduct them; the preponderant power resides in the national representation as a whole" (255)?
(a) James Madison.
(b) Alexis de Tocqueville.
(c) John Quincy Adams.
(d) Queen Victoria.

3. From what book of the Bible is the following quote from Chapter 6 attributed? "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (198).
(a) The Book of Jacob.
(b) The Book of Leviticus.
(c) The Book of Paul.
(d) The Book of John.

4. In 1875, Ulysses S. Grant speculated that if the nation were divided again, it would not be split North versus South but by what, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) Love and hatred.
(b) Intelligence and ignorance.
(c) The sexes.
(d) Religion and atheism.

5. What term refers to the human tendency "to interpret new information as evidence to support preexisting views" (196)?
(a) "Reference bias."
(b) "Rejection bias."
(c) "Confirmation bias."
(d) "False newsification."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is attributed to the following quote that opens Chapter 4? "Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws" (117)?

2. To what position did Donald Trump nominate John Ratcliffe before Ratcliffe withdrew his name due to Senate concerns?

3. What position did Jim Mattis step down from the day after Trump's Syria tweets?

4. When did John McCain die?

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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