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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction – Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom is the following quote attributed? "No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable without possessing a certain portion of order and stability" (19).
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) James Madison.
(c) James Adams.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

2. When did John McCain die?
(a) June 12, 2017.
(b) September 5, 2018.
(c) March 11, 2018.
(d) August 25, 2018.

3. Who is cited with the opening quote of the book: "Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike" (1)?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) John F. Kelly.

4. Who was the head of Trump's transition team when he was elected president?
(a) John F. Kelly.
(b) John Bolton.
(c) Chris Christie.
(d) Reince Priebus.

5. When did Donald Trump say publicly, "You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right? The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now" (15)?
(a) September 2019.
(b) July 2018.
(c) June 2019.
(d) September 2018.

Short Answer Questions

1. When key government leaders quit during the Watergate scandal, what did the press dub it?

2. From what position did Donald Trump remove Rex Tillerson?

3. Who was Donald Trump's first chief of staff?

4. What position did Anthony Scaramucci have in the Trump administration?

5. How many times did John McCain run for president?

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