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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 Fred receive Donald's and Robert's appeal for emotional comfort?
(a) With indifference.
(b) With consideration.
(c) With warmth and love.
(d) With irritation and contempt.

2. According to Mary, what is surprising about the publicity Donald has received over 50 years?
(a) It catapulted him into the presidency.
(b) It has changed Donald into a self-assured man.
(c) There has been very little examination of why he became who he is.
(d) It did not do justice to the family.

3. What was the original idea behind the Federal Housing Administration?
(a) Providing shelters for the poor.
(b) Building luxurious homes for the rich.
(c) Ensuring appropriate planning in construction.
(d) Ensuring affordable housing for a growing population.

4. What funding backed the Virginia Beach project that Fred took up?
(a) Friedrich's money.
(b) Mary's inheritance.
(c) Fred's own hard-earned money.
(d) The Federal Housing Administration.

5. How has the public responded to this normalization of transgressions, according to Mary?
(a) They have forgiven it.
(b) They have accepted it.
(c) They have become almost numb.
(d) They have protested against it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Fred respond to Freddy's job as a commercial pilot?

2. Who was Norman Vincent Peale?

3. Who suffered most from Fred Trump's sociopathy?

4. Where did Donald live later in Manhattan?

5. When was the Federal Housing Administration founded and by whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Freddy start lying to his father?

2. What did Donald do with Robert's favorite Tonka truck when they were young?

3. What does Mary mean when she says Donald has been "institutionalized" (13)?

4. Why did Mary decline the invitation to attend the election-night party?

5. How old was Maryanne when her mother was first hospitalized?

6. What was the problem the Trump business ran into in the Steeplechase project?

7. How does the author differentiate the reason behind lying in the case of Freddy and Donald?

8. What, according to the author, is important for infants and toddlers?

9. How does the author differentiate between the ways Fred caused damage to his eldest sons?

10. What is the ROTC?

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