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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 wrote De Officiis, spelling out how a public servant should behave?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Cicero.

2. What position did Steven Mnuchin hold in the Trump administration?
(a) Director of National Intelligence.
(b) Homeland Security Chief.
(c) Treasury Secretary.
(d) Secretary of Defense.

3. Regarding the issues of immigration, the author states, "At one point, Trump warmed to a new idea for solving what he viewed as the biggest crisis in American history: to label migrants as" what (41)?
(a) "Renegades."
(b) "Enemy combatants."
(c) "Enemy civilians."
(d) "Treasonous persons."

4. With what does the author associate an individual's body and its actions?
(a) His/her software.
(b) His/her hardware.
(c) His/her computer screen.
(d) His/her keyboard.

5. What does the author assert Donald Trump prioritizes over conviction in Chapter 3?
(a) Power.
(b) Flattery.
(c) Convenience.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 2, "It's been said that character is a tree, and reputation its" what (60)?

2. When did the Space Shuttle Challenger explode?

3. 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).

4. Who was the head of Trump's transition team when he was elected president?

5. 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?

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