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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pen name did Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay use in writing anonymous essays rebutting the criticism of the Constitution?
(a) Plubius.
(b) Anonymous.
(c) Voter.
(d) Cicero.

2. Who is the conspiracy theorist behind the website Infowars?
(a) Alex Jones.
(b) Rush Limbaugh.
(c) Roger Moore.
(d) James Franklin.

3. 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) September 2019.
(b) June 2019.
(c) September 2018.
(d) July 2018.

4. What does the author associate a person's moral code as in Chapter 2?
(a) His/her hardware.
(b) His/her keyboard.
(c) His/her software.
(d) His/her motherboard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the prime minister of Denmark that President Trump mocked publicly?

2. 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)?

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. Among the quotes attributed to Donald Trump in Chapter 2, one of them attributes what to being "one of the greatest inventions of all times" (55)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are "character" and "ethics" defined?

2. What event is described that led the author to the writing of this book, as described in the Introduction?

3. What was demonstrated through Trump's response to the "Unite the Right" violence?

4. Why does the author assert he/she has chosen to publish this book anonymously in the Introduction?

5. Describe the president's misunderstanding of tariffs, as examined in Chapter 3.

6. What did Trump say regarding torture during his presidential campaign?

7. How does Trump's character demonstrate wisdom or lack thereof, according to the author's assessment in Chapter 2?

8. What is the "truth" about Trump's border wall presented by the author in Chapter 3?

9. What does the "Saturday Night Massacre" refer to and why does the author describe it in the Introduction?

10. What difficulties do advisors face when briefing the president, according to the author in Chapter 1?

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