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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position does Betsy DeVos hold in the Trump administration?
(a) Homeland Security Chief.
(b) Secretary of Defense.
(c) Secretary of Education.
(d) Treasury Secretary.

2. Who was the head of Trump's transition team when he was elected president?
(a) Reince Priebus.
(b) John F. Kelly.
(c) John Bolton.
(d) Chris Christie.

3. Who wrote: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public" (14)?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) James Madison.
(d) Reince Priebus.

4. What U.S. state is said to be the most prominent of those affected by Trump's attacks and withholding of funds as a means of retribution?
(a) Arizona.
(b) New York.
(c) Texas.
(d) California.

5. When was John McCain released by his Vietnamese captors?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1974.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose portrait hangs over the fireplace in the State Dining Room of the White House?

2. What did the essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in support of the Constitution become known as?

3. Among the quotes attributed to Donald Trump in Chapter 2, one of them attributes what to being "one of the greatest inventions of all times" (55)?

4. When did Trump allegedly reveal highly classified information in an Oval Office meeting with Russia's foreign minister, according to the author in Chapter 4?

5. What term in Chapter 3 refers to a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle?

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