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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 classroom was Obama in at her elementary school?
(a) Obama was placed in a classroom for gifted and talented students.
(b) Obama was placed in a classroom in a grade below her own.
(c) Obama was placed in a classroom for special needs children.
(d) Obama was placed in a classroom for low-performing students.

2. What made Obama's paternal grandfather so grumpy?
(a) He hated his family.
(b) He never achieved his life goals.
(c) He never went to church.
(d) He hated Chicago.

3. What was the name of Obama's dog that lived at her grandfather's house?
(a) Max.
(b) Spot.
(c) Fluffy.
(d) Rex.

4. What was Barack's grandmother's name?
(a) Shoot.
(b) Hoot.
(c) Boot.
(d) Toot.

5. What did one of Obama's distant cousins once ask her when they were talking?
(a) Why she talked like a white girl.
(b) Why she was so tall.
(c) Why she was so short.
(d) Why she dressed like a white girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Obama's father serve the community?

2. What did Obama's college boyfriend want to do after graduation?

3. What distinguished the middle C key on Obama's great aunt's piano from the others?

4. What was Obama's first job after she quit her job at Sidley?

5. Where did Obama go over Christmas break?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Michelle Obama's living situation growing up?

2. What program was Obama enlisted into while at Bryn Mawr?

3. What did Obama's college boyfriend want to do after graduation, and what did he end up doing?

4. What was Obama's father's prized possession?

5. How did Obama experience her first kiss?

6. What did Suzanne reveal to Obama when they were in their mid-twenties?

7. What happened after Obama got pregnant for the first time?

8. What kept Barack from returning to Illinois to vote on a major crime bill?

9. What happened when Obama talked to a group of neighborhood girls while at her grandparents' house?

10. What did Obama's father say to her on the night of his death?

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