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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of the 55 delegates backed the draft of the U.S. Constitution that was released to the public for consideration and ratification in 1787?
(a) 29.
(b) 16.
(c) 39.
(d) 34.

2. 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) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) John F. Kelly.

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

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

5. 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?
(a) "Summer is Coming."
(b) "Tariffs Are Coming."
(c) "Congress is Coming."
(d) "Sanctions Are Coming."

6. 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 Deep State.
(c) The Blue State.
(d) The Infowars State.

7. What term refers to the combined qualities of wisdom, temperance, courage, and justice?
(a) The four blessings.
(b) The cardinal virtues.
(c) The four attributes.
(d) The square center.

8. What state did John McCain serve as a United States senator?
(a) Texas.
(b) California.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Utah.

9. Who famously restored and redesigned the stately rooms of the White House?
(a) Jacqueline Kennedy.
(b) Dolley Madison.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) James Buchanan.

10. What nickname did Donald lTrump conceive of for Senator Dick Blumenthal?
(a) Pocahontus.
(b) De Nang Dick.
(c) Slimeball.
(d) Sneaky Dick.

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

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

13. 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) "Enemy combatants."
(c) "Renegades."
(d) "Enemy civilians."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in support of the Constitution become known as?

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 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)?

5. According to an investigation by USA Today, Trump was involved in over how many lawsuits over the span of three decades?

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