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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is cited with the following quote that opens Chapter 5? "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty" (151).
(a) James Madison.
(b) Alexander Hamilton.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

2. When did Donald Trump bellow at a campaign event, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the thirty thousan [Clinton] emails that are missing" (163)?
(a) July 2016.
(b) September 2016.
(c) March 2017.
(d) May 2017.

3. According to a Washington Post analysis, after nearly 900 days in the White House, how many false claims had the president made (194)?
(a) 11,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 7,000.
(d) 13,000.

4. Who appointed Robert Mueller to be the special counsel to lead the investigation into the Russian interference?
(a) Jerome Corsi.
(b) Rod Rosenstein.
(c) Scott Pruitt.
(d) Jerome Powell.

5. What ABC reporter did Trump tell he would consider accepting dirt from a foreign government about a political opponent?
(a) Jerome Corsi.
(b) Jerome Powell.
(c) Scott Pruitt.
(d) George Stephanopoulos.

6. What French President did Trump mock on Twitter for his low approval ratings and high unemployment?
(a) Karl Popper.
(b) Don McGahn.
(c) Malcolm Turnbull.
(d) Emmanuel Macron.

7. What Democratic president historically vowed that America would stand for "the principles of a liberated mankind... whether in war or in peace" (155)?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

8. What does the author assert is "the second-worst trait any president can have when he's trying to make deals on behalf of the American people" (192)?
(a) "The inability to bite his tongue."
(b) "The temperament of a child."
(c) "Dishonesty."
(d) "Lack of ethics."

9. What judge related to a lawsuit against Trump University did Trump accuse of bias because the judge was of Mexican heritage?
(a) Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
(b) Judge Jerome Powell.
(c) Judge Scott Pruitt.
(d) Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel.

10. Who wrote, "The more we try to return to the heroic age of tribalism, the more surely do we arrive at the Inquisition, at the Secret Police, and at a romanticized gangsterism" (206)?
(a) Malcolm Turnbull.
(b) Don McGahn.
(c) Kellyanne Conway.
(d) Karl Popper.

11. What CNN correspondent did Trump get into it with in the fall of 2018, calling him a "rude, terrible person" (200)?
(a) Jim Acosta.
(b) Karl Popper.
(c) Don McGahn.
(d) Malcolm Turnbull.

12. When did Trump tweet "... I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong" (137)?
(a) June 2018.
(b) June 2019.
(c) May 2017.
(d) July 2017.

13. Who is the authoritarian Turkish president whom Trump referred to as a friend?
(a) Recep Erdogan.
(b) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk..
(c) Cemal Gürsel..
(d) Karl Popper.

14. What term refers to the human tendency "to interpret new information as evidence to support preexisting views" (196)?
(a) "Reference bias."
(b) "Rejection bias."
(c) "Confirmation bias."
(d) "False newsification."

15. In 1875, Ulysses S. Grant speculated that if the nation were divided again, it would not be split North versus South but by what, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) Intelligence and ignorance.
(b) Love and hatred.
(c) The sexes.
(d) Religion and atheism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long of a heads-up is the president required to provide Congress before weapons sales with other countries can move forward?

2. Who introduced the term "alternative facts" on Meet the Press when speaking with Chuck Todd?

3. What Australian Prime Minister pressed President Trump on the issue of refugees right after his inauguration?

4. What major corporation did Rex Tillerson once head?

5. In concluding Chapter 6, the author states, "If Trump's actions have turned the US government into one of his failed businesses, his rhetoric is turning our national stage into one of his" what (206)?

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