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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 key government leaders quit during the Watergate scandal, what did the press dub it?
(a) The "Midnight Mutiny."
(b) The "Last Walkout."
(c) The "Watergate Walkout."
(d) The "Saturday Night Massacre."

2. On what date did Trump tweet: "We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency" (19)?
(a) September 5, 2018.
(b) August 25, 2018.
(c) March 12, 2018.
(d) December 19, 2018.

3. What position did Anthony Scaramucci have in the Trump administration?
(a) Secretary of Defense.
(b) Homeland Security Advisor.
(c) Treasury Secretary.
(d) White House Communications Director.

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

5. Regarding the issues of immigration, the author states, "At one point, Trump warmed to a new idea for solving what he viewed as the biggest crisis in American history: to label migrants as" what (41)?
(a) "Treasonous persons."
(b) "Enemy civilians."
(c) "Enemy combatants."
(d) "Renegades."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote De Officiis, spelling out how a public servant should behave?

2. When did Donald Trump state, "Nobody reads the Bible more than me" (61)?

3. When was John McCain released by his Vietnamese captors?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author define "Steady State" and "Deep State" in the book?

2. What is confirmation bias?

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

4. How does Trump use fear as a tactic within his administration?

5. To what does the author attribute Trump's fickleness of political party?

6. Why does the author present a number of crude statements by Donald Trump in Chapter 2?

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

8. To what does the author attribute the high rate of turnover in the Trump administration in Chapter 1?

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

10. Upon what ideals was the Republican Party founded?

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