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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When key government leaders quit during the Watergate scandal, what did the press dub it?
(a) The "Watergate Walkout."
(b) The "Midnight Mutiny."
(c) The "Saturday Night Massacre."
(d) The "Last Walkout."

2. How many of the 55 delegates backed the draft of the U.S. Constitution that was released to the public for consideration and ratification in 1787?
(a) 16.
(b) 34.
(c) 29.
(d) 39.

3. What position did Kirstjen Nielson have within the Trump administration?
(a) Director of National Intelligence.
(b) Homeland Security Chief.
(c) Secretary of Defense.
(d) Treasury Secretary.

4. Who was Donald Trump's third National Security Advisor?
(a) Chris Christie.
(b) John Bolton.
(c) Reince Priebus.
(d) John F. Kelly.

5. Who wrote: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public" (14)?
(a) James Madison.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Reince Priebus.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state did John McCain serve as a United States senator?

2. When did Donald Trump make the statement to an audience in Iowa, "I like people who weren't captured" (3)?

3. When was John McCain released by his Vietnamese captors?

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

5. 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).

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