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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote "God grant that men of principle be our principal men" (49)?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Jacqueline Kennedy.
(d) John Bolton.

3. When was John McCain released by his Vietnamese captors?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1971.

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

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).
(a) James Adams.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) James Madison.

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

7. According to an investigation by USA Today, Trump was involved in over how many lawsuits over the span of three decades?
(a) 4,500.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 3,500.
(d) 1,500.

8. Who rescued the portrait of George Washington's before the British set fire to the White House?
(a) Dolley Madison.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) Jacqueline Kennedy.

9. What is the title of Chapter 1?
(a) "The Deep State Grows."
(b) "Sanctions Are Coming."
(c) "Analysis of Character."
(d) "Collapse of the Steady State."

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

11. What term does the author use to refer to those in the Trump administration who, like him, have worked to maintain security and focus despite Trump's erratic actions?
(a) The Deep State.
(b) The Steady State.
(c) The Infowars State.
(d) The Blue State.

12. What was Tom Bossert's position in the Trump administration?
(a) Homeland Security Advisor.
(b) White House Communications Director.
(c) Secretary of Defense.
(d) Treasury Secretary.

13. What White House counsel did Donald Trump demand fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and he refused?
(a) Reince Priebus.
(b) Don McGahn.
(c) John F. Kelly.
(d) Mike Pence.

14. 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) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) James Madison.
(d) Reince Priebus.

15. Who was the first U.S. President to reside in the upper level of the White House?
(a) James Buchanan.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) John Adams.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What position did Kirstjen Nielson have within the Trump administration?

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

4. What position did Jim Mattis step down from the day after Trump's Syria tweets?

5. 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)?

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