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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What position did Kirstjen Nielson have within the Trump administration?
(a) Homeland Security Chief.
(b) Director of National Intelligence.
(c) Treasury Secretary.
(d) Secretary of Defense.

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

5. What position did Jim Mattis step down from the day after Trump's Syria tweets?
(a) Secretary of Defense.
(b) Director of National Intelligence.
(c) Treasury Secretary.
(d) Homeland Security Chief.

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

7. Whose father did Trump suggest (without evidence) was involved in the Kennedy assassination?
(a) Ted Cruz's.
(b) Mike Pence's.
(c) John Bolton's.
(d) John F. Kelly's.

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

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

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

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

12. 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)?
(a) Abigail Adams.
(b) Scott Pruitt.
(c) Jerome Powell.
(d) Dolley Madison.

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

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

15. When did Donald Trump state, "Nobody reads the Bible more than me" (61)?
(a) February 2016.
(b) March 2019.
(c) May 2017.
(d) July 2016.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what war did the British set fire to the White House?

2. What did Donald Trump once errantly claim was the primary export to Japan while he was giving a speech on energy production?

3. What term refers to the combined qualities of wisdom, temperance, courage, and justice?

4. When did Donald Trump say publicly, "You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right? The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now" (15)?

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

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