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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. How did Obama discover the engagement ring?
(a) It was under her chair.
(b) It was on a dessert platter at a restaurant.
(c) It was in her salad at a restaurant.
(d) Barack wore it around his neck.

2. How did Obama's father serve the community?
(a) He was precinct captain for the city's Democratic Party.
(b) He delivered people's milk.
(c) He taught children to play piano.
(d) He was precinct captain for the city's Republican Party.

3. Who were Obama's closest friends in elementary school?
(a) The Moore Sisters.
(b) The Soul Sisters.
(c) The Gore sisters.
(d) The Frost Sisters.

4. What was Craig's biggest fear growing up?
(a) World War III.
(b) Nuclear war.
(c) Fire.
(d) Death.

5. Where did Obama live as a child?
(a) The first floor of her great aunt's apartment.
(b) In a penthouse in New York.
(c) In the suburbs.
(d) The second floor of her great aunt's apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Obama not want her girls to grow up thinking?

2. What was the name of the project Barack was asked to overlook in Illinois?

3. What did Barack say to Michelle before he left for law school again for the first time?

4. Where did Barack write his first book?

5. What was the name of Michelle Obama's great aunt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Project VOTE!

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

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

4. What happened when Obama jumped forward in her piano workbook?

5. What is the name of the Obama's first child, and when was she born?

6. What started happening to Obama's neighborhood when she was a child?

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

8. What kinds of things was Craig worried about growing up, and what did he do about those things?

9. Why was Dandy such a grumpy person to be around sometimes?

10. What did Obama's father do when she told him to stay home from work and rest?

(see the answer keys)

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