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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Donald Trump make the following tweet? "Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest--and you all know it! Please don't feel stupid or insecure, it's not your fault" (62).
(a) 2018.
(b) 2019.
(c) 2016.
(d) 2013.

2. When did John McCain die?
(a) June 12, 2017.
(b) March 11, 2018.
(c) September 5, 2018.
(d) August 25, 2018.

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

4. What was the U.S. federal budget deficit when Obama left office in 2016?
(a) $932 billion.
(b) $1.4 trillion.
(c) $4.2 trillion.
(d) $587 billion.

5. Who was Donald Trump's third National Security Advisor?
(a) John Bolton.
(b) Reince Priebus.
(c) Chris Christie.
(d) John F. Kelly.

6. 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) "Treasonous persons."
(b) "Renegades."
(c) "Enemy civilians."
(d) "Enemy combatants."

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

8. What is the nickname that Trump coined for Senator Elizabeth Warren?
(a) Pocahontas.
(b) Warring Warren.
(c) Slimeball.
(d) Little Liz.

9. Who is cited with the opening quote of the book: "Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike" (1)?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) John F. Kelly.

10. What did Donald Trump once errantly claim was the primary export to Japan while he was giving a speech on energy production?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Apples.
(c) Cars.
(d) Computers.

11. From what position did Donald Trump remove John Kelly?
(a) Treasury Secretary.
(b) White House Communications Director.
(c) Director of National Intelligence.
(d) Chief of Staff.

12. 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) July 2017.
(b) December 2019.
(c) June 2018.
(d) February 2018.

13. What was the U.S. federal budget deficit when Obama took office in 2009?
(a) $1.4 trillion.
(b) $932 billion.
(c) $4.2 trillion.
(d) $587 billion.

14. Who was the head of Trump's transition team when he was elected president?
(a) John Bolton.
(b) John F. Kelly.
(c) Chris Christie.
(d) Reince Priebus.

15. 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) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John Bolton.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

3. Whose portrait hangs over the fireplace in the State Dining Room of the White House?

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

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