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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 – 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When key government leaders quit during the Watergate scandal, what did the press dub it?
(a) The "Last Walkout."
(b) The "Midnight Mutiny."
(c) The "Watergate Walkout."
(d) The "Saturday Night Massacre."

2. When was the Resolute desk that sits in the Oval Office gifted to the U.S.?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1890.

3. Who wrote "God grant that men of principle be our principal men" (49)?
(a) Jacqueline Kennedy.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John Bolton.
(d) John Adams.

4. How many times did John McCain run for president?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

5. What president delayed the nation from plunging into civil war but at the cost that he protected the slave-holding interests of the South, according to the author in Chapter 2?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) James Buchanan.
(d) John Bolton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who famously restored and redesigned the stately rooms of the White House?

2. What did Donald Trump once errantly claim was the primary export to Japan while he was giving a speech on energy production?

3. What position did Jim Mattis step down from the day after Trump's Syria tweets?

4. What former economic advisor is quoted in Chapter 2 as having said, "Trump won't read anything--not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored" (61)?

5. Who gifted the Resolute desk that sits in the Oval Office?

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