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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 – 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term in Chapter 3 refers to a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle?
(a) Apostate.
(b) Articulate.
(c) Magnate.
(d) Rhetoric.

2. Who said, "I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic" (91)?
(a) Abigail Adams.
(b) Dolley Madison.
(c) Jerome Powell.
(d) Scott Pruitt.

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

4. From what position did Donald Trump remove Rex Tillerson?
(a) Director of National Intelligence.
(b) Secretary of Defense.
(c) Treasury Secretary.
(d) Secretary of State.

5. In what war did the British set fire to the White House?
(a) The French and Indian War.
(b) The Mexican-American War.
(c) The War of 1812.
(d) The Creek War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the prime minister of Denmark that President Trump mocked publicly?

2. What percentage of U.S. adults said that "political debate in the country has become more negative and less respectful" according to a Pew Research Center survey released in 2019 (191)?

3. Who wrote, "The more we try to return to the heroic age of tribalism, the more surely do we arrive at the Inquisition, at the Secret Police, and at a romanticized gangsterism" (206)?

4. What term refers to the combined qualities of wisdom, temperance, courage, and justice?

5. Who, in his first speech on the Senate floor, compared Beijing to "the cook that kills the frog in a pot of boiling water, smiling and cajoling as it slowly turns up the military and economic heat" (172)?

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