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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is cited with the opening quote of the book: "Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike" (1)?
(a) John F. Kelly.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) James Madison.

2. What pen name did Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay use in writing anonymous essays rebutting the criticism of the Constitution?
(a) Voter.
(b) Cicero.
(c) Plubius.
(d) Anonymous.

3. When did Donald Trump say publicly, "You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right? The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now" (15)?
(a) September 2019.
(b) September 2018.
(c) July 2018.
(d) June 2019.

4. What term in Chapter 3 refers to a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle?
(a) Magnate.
(b) Articulate.
(c) Rhetoric.
(d) Apostate.

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

6. When did Donald Trump state, "Nobody reads the Bible more than me" (61)?
(a) May 2017.
(b) February 2016.
(c) July 2016.
(d) March 2019.

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

8. What state did John McCain serve as a United States senator?
(a) Arizona.
(b) California.
(c) Texas.
(d) Utah.

9. Whose father did Trump suggest (without evidence) was involved in the Kennedy assassination?
(a) John Bolton's.
(b) Mike Pence's.
(c) John F. Kelly's.
(d) Ted Cruz's.

10. 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)?
(a) James Buchanan.
(b) Chris Christie.
(c) John Bolton.
(d) Gary Cohn.

11. What White House counsel did Donald Trump demand fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and he refused?
(a) Don McGahn.
(b) Mike Pence.
(c) Reince Priebus.
(d) John F. Kelly.

12. What nickname did Donald lTrump conceive of for Senator Dick Blumenthal?
(a) Slimeball.
(b) Pocahontus.
(c) De Nang Dick.
(d) Sneaky Dick.

13. Who was the prime minister of Denmark that President Trump mocked publicly?
(a) John Bolton.
(b) Mette Frederiksen.
(c) James Buchanan.
(d) Gary Cohn.

14. Who is the conspiracy theorist behind the website Infowars?
(a) Roger Moore.
(b) James Franklin.
(c) Rush Limbaugh.
(d) Alex Jones.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When key government leaders quit during the Watergate scandal, what did the press dub it?

2. With what does the author associate an individual's body and its actions?

3. What one-word tweet did President Trump post in response after the New York Times article by the author was published?

4. 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)?

5. How many of the 55 delegates backed the draft of the U.S. Constitution that was released to the public for consideration and ratification in 1787?

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