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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is defined by the author as "the study of how a person should act, particularly toward others" (57)?
(a) Social studies.
(b) Entropics.
(c) Theory.
(d) Ethics.

2. 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.

3. How many times has Donald Trump changed his political party over the last three decades, according to the author in Chapter 3?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

4. 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.

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

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

7. Who was the head of the Environmental Protection Agency that blamed staff for his misuse of government funds and was forced to resign?
(a) Jerome Powell.
(b) Dolley Madison.
(c) Scott Pruitt.
(d) James Buchanan.

8. What former economic advisor is quoted in Chapter 2 as having said, "Trump won't read anything--not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored" (61)?
(a) John Bolton.
(b) Chris Christie.
(c) James Buchanan.
(d) Gary Cohn.

9. 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.

10. 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)?
(a) "Virtuous."
(b) "Just."
(c) "Kind."
(d) "Wise."

11. 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) John Bolton.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) James Buchanan.

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

13. When did the Space Shuttle Challenger explode?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1992.

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

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

Short Answer 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?

2. How many executive orders did Bill Clinton issue in his first three years as president?

3. Who was Donald Trump's third National Security Advisor?

4. What is the title of Chapter 1?

5. Who is the conspiracy theorist behind the website Infowars?

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