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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. When did John McCain die?
(a) June 12, 2017.
(b) August 25, 2018.
(c) September 5, 2018.
(d) March 11, 2018.

2. What is the title of Chapter 1?
(a) "Sanctions Are Coming."
(b) "Collapse of the Steady State."
(c) "The Deep State Grows."
(d) "Analysis of Character."

3. Who wrote De Officiis, spelling out how a public servant should behave?
(a) Plato.
(b) Cicero.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Socrates.

4. Who was Donald Trump's second chief of staff?
(a) Reince Priebus.
(b) Chris Christie.
(c) John F. Kelly.
(d) John Bolton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Jim Mattis step down from the day after Trump's Syria tweets?

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

3. 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)?

4. What was the U.S. federal budget deficit when Obama left office in 2016?

5. Who was the head of the Environmental Protection Agency that blamed staff for his misuse of government funds and was forced to resign?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What were the circumstances surrounding Trump's disclosure that the U.S. was pulling out of Syria?

4. Why was Trump compared to General George S. Patton in Chapter 1?

5. Why does the author turn to Cicero in Chapter 2?

6. How does Trump compare with recent presidents concerning executive orders?

7. In Chapter 1, the author describes the president's orders broken down into thirds. What comprise these three types of orders?

8. What are some of the most extreme ideas Trump came up with for dealing with the issue of immigration according to the author in Chapter 1?

9. What are the Federalist Papers? Why are they discussed in the Introduction?

10. What does Trump's response to the author's op-ed in the New York Time say about him?

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