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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the TWC's son?

2. What was the first position Barack asked his wife permission to run for?

3. What was the name of Obama's first year roommate who moved out?

4. Where did Obama's family visit their friends the Stewarts?

5. What was the name of the nonprofit Obama worked for briefly?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Obama's job at Sidley & Austin change her life?

2. Who were Barack Obama's parents?

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

4. What made Suzanne and Obama so different?

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

6. What was Barack's solution to finish his book in such as short amount of time?

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

8. What happened at Obama's first piano recital?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay defining support from Michelle Obama's perspective. What does it mean to be supportive and who are the people in Obama's life who have taught her this?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you analyze the relationship and dynamic between Michelle Obama and her family. What kind of wife and mother did she want to be, and how were these dynamics altered once her family moved into the White House?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout her husband's presidential campaign and even throughout his eight-year-long presidency, Michelle Obama faced criticism on all fronts from the media and the public. How did Michelle contend with the constant pressure while in the public eye, and in what ways were her methods successful or unsuccessful?

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