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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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?
(a) James Buchanan.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) John Bolton.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

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

5. When did President Trump suggest to aides that weapons be given to all of American's teachers so they could fight back against mass shooters?
(a) February 2018.
(b) December 2019.
(c) July 2017.
(d) June 2018.

6. On what date did Trump tweet: "We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency" (19)?
(a) December 19, 2018.
(b) August 25, 2018.
(c) March 12, 2018.
(d) September 5, 2018.

7. Among the quotes attributed to Donald Trump in Chapter 2, one of them attributes what to being "one of the greatest inventions of all times" (55)?
(a) The cell phone.
(b) The computer.
(c) The telephone.
(d) TiVo.

8. Who did Donald Trump appoint as the Chair of the Federal Reserve?
(a) Gary Cohn.
(b) Chris Christie.
(c) Jerome Powell.
(d) John Bolton.

9. Who is the conspiracy theorist behind the website Infowars?
(a) Alex Jones.
(b) James Franklin.
(c) Rush Limbaugh.
(d) Roger Moore.

10. 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 Steady State.
(b) The Infowars State.
(c) The Blue State.
(d) The Deep State.

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

12. What position did Anthony Scaramucci have in the Trump administration?
(a) Treasury Secretary.
(b) Secretary of Defense.
(c) White House Communications Director.
(d) Homeland Security Advisor.

13. What does the author associate a person's moral code as in Chapter 2?
(a) His/her keyboard.
(b) His/her hardware.
(c) His/her motherboard.
(d) His/her software.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the parody poster in the style of Game of Thrones say that Trump became enamored with, according to the author in Chapter 1?

2. Whom did President-Elect Trump replace his transition chief with after his election victory?

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 wrote "God grant that men of principle be our principal men" (49)?

5. Who wrote De Officiis, spelling out how a public servant should behave?

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