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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction – Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Dan Coats's position in the Trump administration?
(a) Treasury Secretary.
(b) Homeland Security Chief.
(c) Secretary of Defense.
(d) Director of National Intelligence.

2. What position did Steven Mnuchin hold in the Trump administration?
(a) Secretary of Defense.
(b) Director of National Intelligence.
(c) Homeland Security Chief.
(d) Treasury Secretary.

3. Whom did President-Elect Trump replace his transition chief with after his election victory?
(a) Mike Pence.
(b) John F. Kelly.
(c) Reince Priebus.
(d) John Bolton.

4. What position did Kirstjen Nielson have within the Trump administration?
(a) Secretary of Defense.
(b) Director of National Intelligence.
(c) Homeland Security Chief.
(d) Treasury Secretary.

5. To whom is the following quote attributed? "No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable without possessing a certain portion of order and stability" (19).
(a) James Adams.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) James Madison.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the parody poster in the style of Game of Thrones say that Trump became enamored with, according to the author in Chapter 1?

2. Who wrote "God grant that men of principle be our principal men" (49)?

3. When did the anonymous author of A Warning publish a piece in the New York Times describing the instability within the Trump administration?

4. For how long was John McCain held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam?

5. What pen name did Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay use in writing anonymous essays rebutting the criticism of the Constitution?

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