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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in support of the Constitution become known as?
(a) The Pluralist Papers.
(b) The Federalist Papers.
(c) The Nationalist Papers.
(d) The Constitution Papers.

2. 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)?
(a) June 2019.
(b) September 2018.
(c) September 2019.
(d) July 2018.

3. When did Donald Trump make the statement to an audience in Iowa, "I like people who weren't captured" (3)?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2017.

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) 4,500.
(c) 3,500.
(d) 1,500.

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

6. 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) Scott Pruitt.
(b) Abigail Adams.
(c) Jerome Powell.
(d) Dolley Madison.

7. How many executive orders did Bill Clinton issue in his first three years as president?
(a) 120.
(b) 25.
(c) 112.
(d) 90.

8. When did the anonymous author of A Warning publish a piece in the New York Times describing the instability within the Trump administration?
(a) August 25, 2018.
(b) September 5, 2018.
(c) March 11, 2018.
(d) September 25, 2018.

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

10. Who wrote: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public" (14)?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Reince Priebus.
(c) James Madison.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

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

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

13. 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) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) James Madison.
(d) John F. Kelly.

14. 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) "Tariffs Are Coming."
(b) "Summer is Coming."
(c) "Congress is Coming."
(d) "Sanctions Are Coming."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who famously restored and redesigned the stately rooms of the White House?

2. 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).

3. Who was the first U.S. President to reside in the upper level of the White House?

4. Whose father did Trump suggest (without evidence) was involved in the Kennedy assassination?

5. What was Dan Coats's position in the Trump administration?

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