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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did one of Obama's distant cousins once ask her when they were talking?

2. Who was Obama's best friend in college?

3. Where did the Obamas get married?

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

5. What was the name of the space on Princeton campus designed to support people of color?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was it so easy for Obama to find the middle C key on Robbie's piano?

2. What started happening to Obama's neighborhood when she was a child?

3. What was Barack's solution to finish his book in such as short amount of time?

4. Why did one of Obama's first year roommates move out of their room?

5. What was Michelle Obama's living situation growing up?

6. What made Suzanne and Obama so different?

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

8. What did Obama and Craig get into a fight over the day after their father's death?

9. What kinds of things was Craig worried about growing up, and what did he do about those things?

10. What is the name of the Obama's first child, and when was she born?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Michelle Obama experiences a change in heart in her mid-twenties when she realizes she does not want to be a lawyer. How did she go about making career changes, and how is it effective or not effective?

Essay Topic 2

Michelle Obama writes that she is extremely grateful to her parents for the way that they raised her. What about her parent's parenting methods helped to shape her as a person, and did they influence her own methods as a mother? If so, how?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing Obama's attitude toward people and relationships. What did Obama want to convey to the people around her -- whether they be her family, friends, constituents, or opponents -- and how did she go about doing so while she was First Lady?

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