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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 long of a heads-up is the president required to provide Congress before weapons sales with other countries can move forward?
(a) 15 days.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 30 days.
(d) 6 months.

2. Who is the authoritarian Turkish president whom Trump referred to as a friend?
(a) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk..
(b) Recep Erdogan.
(c) Karl Popper.
(d) Cemal Gürsel..

3. Who said a quarter century ago that America would be "the greatest and most powerful nation, but a nation with peers" (156)?
(a) Gary Cohn.
(b) Karl Popper.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

4. When did "The Greek experiment with democracy" reach "a memorable turning point" (183)?
(a) 231 BC.
(b) 32 BC.
(c) 427 BC.
(d) 142 BC.

5. Of what former Attorney General did Trump exclaim "Man, he is one of the stupidest creatures on this earth God ever Created!" (118)?
(a) Scott Pruitt.
(b) Jeff Sessions.
(c) Jerome Powell.
(d) Don McGahn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does Betsy DeVos hold in the Trump administration?

2. Why was Russia cast out of the G7 group?

3. Who, in his first speech on the Senate floor, compared Beijing to "the cook that kills the frog in a pot of boiling water, smiling and cajoling as it slowly turns up the military and economic heat" (172)?

4. In 1875, Ulysses S. Grant speculated that if the nation were divided again, it would not be split North versus South but by what, according to the author in Chapter 6?

5. Who replaced Mike Flynn as National Security Advisor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author note about Trump having been caught on camera examining sensitive documents using a cell phone in Chapter 4?

2. How did President Trump respond to the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi? Why?

3. What is the Mueller Report?

4. How does the author describe Trump's behavior toward the judicial system?

5. Who was Cleon and how is he compared with Trump?

6. Describe Trump's performance at the 2018 G7 summit.

7. What threats are presented through Donald Trump's affinity for autocrats, according to the author?

8. What was notable about Trump tweeting a photo of a failed Iranian missile launch in the summer of 2019?

9. What does the Ukraine scandal demonstrate, according to the author in Chapter 5?

10. The author states that the legislative branch is the first enumerated in the Constitution in Article I for a reason. Why?

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