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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 was Tom Bossert's position in the Trump administration?
(a) Secretary of Defense.
(b) White House Communications Director.
(c) Treasury Secretary.
(d) Homeland Security Advisor.

2. When did President Trump suggest to aides that weapons be given to all of American's teachers so they could fight back against mass shooters?
(a) December 2019.
(b) July 2017.
(c) June 2018.
(d) February 2018.

3. Who rescued the portrait of George Washington's before the British set fire to the White House?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Dolley Madison.
(c) Jacqueline Kennedy.
(d) John Adams.

4. What term refers to the combined qualities of wisdom, temperance, courage, and justice?
(a) The four blessings.
(b) The square center.
(c) The four attributes.
(d) The cardinal virtues.

5. What did Donald Trump once errantly claim was the primary export to Japan while he was giving a speech on energy production?
(a) Computers.
(b) Apples.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 2, "It's been said that character is a tree, and reputation its" what (60)?

2. Who was Donald Trump's first chief of staff?

3. What one-word tweet did President Trump post in response after the New York Times article by the author was published?

4. What state did John McCain serve as a United States senator?

5. Who was the head of Trump's transition team when he was elected president?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author remark regarding his/her thesis in the New York Times op-ed "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" in the Introduction?

3. Who headed Trump's transition team surrounding his inauguration? What difficulties were faced?

4. What do the "cardinal virtues" refer to?

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

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

7. Upon what ideals was the Republican Party founded?

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

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

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

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