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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. Where did Obama travel to while in high school?
(a) Rome.
(b) Nairobi.
(c) Paris.
(d) Lisbon.

2. What did one of Obama's distant cousins once ask her when they were talking?
(a) Why she was so tall.
(b) Why she talked like a white girl.
(c) Why she dressed like a white girl.
(d) Why she was so short.

3. What is the name of the second Obama child?
(a) Sasha.
(b) Malia.
(c) Ann.
(d) Marian.

4. What was the name of Obama's high school?
(a) Whitney M. Young.
(b) Sidley & Austin.
(c) Sidwell Friends.
(d) Bryn Mawr.

5. What happened to Suzanne in her mid-twenties?
(a) She was diagnosed with cancer.
(b) She got married.
(c) She went to graduate school.
(d) She had a child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Obama's summer associate at Sidley and Austin?

2. What happened after Obama got pregnant for the first time?

3. Who taught Obama to play piano?

4. Where did Obama attend elementary school?

5. What was Obama's first job after she quit her job at Sidley?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Obama jumped forward in her piano workbook?

2. What was Project VOTE!

3. Why did Obama avoid telling her parents about the school trip to Paris?

4. Who was Czerny Brausell?

5. What did Suzanne reveal to Obama when they were in their mid-twenties?

6. What was the Third World Center?

7. What did Obama's father say to her on the night of his death?

8. How did Obama experience her first kiss?

9. Who were Barack Obama's parents?

10. How did Obama's ideas about marriage differ from Barack's?

(see the answer keys)

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