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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 gifted the Resolute desk that sits in the Oval Office?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) James Buchanan.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

2. 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 Adams.
(c) James Madison.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

3. Who was the head of the Environmental Protection Agency that blamed staff for his misuse of government funds and was forced to resign?
(a) James Buchanan.
(b) Dolley Madison.
(c) Scott Pruitt.
(d) Jerome Powell.

4. Whom did President-Elect Trump replace his transition chief with after his election victory?
(a) John Bolton.
(b) Mike Pence.
(c) John F. Kelly.
(d) Reince Priebus.

5. Over what issue did Donald Trump have conflicts after the death of John McCain?
(a) Keeping the flags at half mast.
(b) Whether he would make a public statement.
(c) Investigations into the McCain family.
(d) A book deal about McCain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Donald Trump's third National Security Advisor?

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

3. 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)?

4. In the opening of Chapter 2, George Washington is quoted with, "A good moral character is the first essential in a man ... It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but" also what (53)?

5. What was Dan Coats's position in the Trump administration?

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