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

2. Who is the Saudi crown prince who was pegged with blame for the murder of a Washington Post columnist in October of 2018?
(a) Mohammed AbdulRahman.
(b) Mohammed Abdulaziz I.
(c) Mohammed bin Salman.
(d) Mohammed Abdullah I.

3. Who "argued that the laws of nature--including 'the survival of the fittest'--apply to global politics," according to the author in Chapter 5 (178)?
(a) Will Durant.
(b) Don McGahn.
(c) Malcolm Turnbull.
(d) Karl Popper.

4. What does the author say is "the fairest way to describe the president's attitude toward our enemies" in Chapter 5 (167)?
(a) Resolution.
(b) Absolute distrust.
(c) Willful ignorance.
(d) Determined ambition.

5. What Washington Post columnist was murdered in Saudi Arabia in October of 2018?
(a) Karl Popper.
(b) Jamal. Khashoggi.
(c) Cemal Gürsel.
(d) Roger Waterson.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. 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)?

3. Who said a quarter century ago that America would be "the greatest and most powerful nation, but a nation with peers" (156)?

4. 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)?

5. What does the author describe in Chapter 5 as "the most important responsibility of the commander in chief" (153)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Mueller Report?

2. What is the duty of the national security advisor, according to the author in Chapter 5?

3. What is referred to as the "New Mason-Dixon Line" in Chapter 6?

4. How does the author describe Trump's behavior toward the judicial system?

5. Describe Trump's performance at the 2018 G7 summit.

6. What threats are presented through Donald Trump's affinity for autocrats, according to the author?

7. For what did Michael Cohen go to prison?

8. The author states that the legislative branch is the first enumerated in the Constitution in Article I for a reason. Why?

9. Who was Cleon and how is he compared with Trump?

10. What is NATO?

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