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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did John McCain marry Carol Shepp?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1965.

2. In international relations, what refers to a re-establishment of cordial relations, as between two countries?
(a) Encroachment.
(b) Breach of Contract.
(c) Reinactment.
(d) Rapprochement.

3. In December 2008, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced that he had leased out the city's parking meters for over ____________.
(a) $1 billion.
(b) $200 million.
(c) $2 billion.
(d) $150 million.

4. Barack Obama led a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against whom?
(a) John McCain.
(b) George W. Bush.
(c) Sarah Palin.
(d) Hillary Clinton.

5. Where was Scott Brown born?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) Kittery, Maine.
(d) Boston, Massachusetts.

6. The Prudent Man Rule is based on common law stemming from what Massachusetts court decision?
(a) Yale College v. Harvard University.
(b) Harvard College v. Amory.
(c) Amory v. Harvard College.
(d) Anderson and Smith v. Amory.

7. What is a requirement for a proposal to gain a specified level or type of support which exceeds a simple majority (over 50%)?
(a) Great majority.
(b) Superpower.
(c) Upper majority.
(d) Supermajority.

8. According to Chapter 4, Goldman-Sachs was the dominant index cornering about how much of the speculation market?
(a) Two-thirds.
(b) One-half.
(c) One-third.
(d) Three-fourths.

9. When was Scott Brown born?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1940.

10. What United States Representative said that Obama's health care initiative was a "backroom deal that had nothing to do with the public perception"?
(a) Anderson Cooper.
(b) James Edwards.
(c) Dennis Kucinich.
(d) Ted Coppell.

11. Barack Obama previously served as a United States Senator from what state?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Washington.
(c) Illinois.
(d) California.

12. What refers to the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country, in order to isolate it?
(a) Observationalism.
(b) Emigration.
(c) Embargo.
(d) Contextualism.

13. Where did Scott Brown earn his law degree?
(a) Yale University School of Law.
(b) Boston College Law School.
(c) Harvard Law School.
(d) Columbia School of Law.

14. Nancy Pelosi is the Minority Leader of ______________.
(a) The United States House of State.
(b) The United States House of Representatives.
(c) The United States Senate.
(d) The United States Supreme Court.

15. The CFTC was created in what year?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1994.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Henry Kissinger born?

2. The Commodity Exchange Act was established under whose administration?

3. When was John McCain born?

4. Since the United States does not have a single-payer health care system, there are over how many health agencies, all of which have different forms and standards?

5. Kissinger served as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under which President?

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