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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: The Cruelty is the Point, Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to the author, is important for infants and toddlers?
(a) Christmas gifts.
(b) The outdoors.
(c) Siblings.
(d) An emotionally available parent.

2. What funding backed the Virginia Beach project that Fred took up?
(a) Mary's inheritance.
(b) The Federal Housing Administration.
(c) Friedrich's money.
(d) Fred's own hard-earned money.

3. How was Fred different from his wife, Mary?
(a) While Mary was unemotional, Fred was highly emotional.
(b) While Mary needed time with her children, Fred did not need any.
(c) While Mary needed attention, Fred did not need any.
(d) While Mary became an invalid, Fred became successful.

4. How did Mary's fortunes change after the marriage?
(a) She had been a live-in help but now she had live-in help.
(b) She became affluent whereas she had been middle class.
(c) She became American after being Scottish.
(d) She came into a large inheritance after her marriage.

5. What Trump staples are served at dinner?
(a) Spinach soup and steak.
(b) Spinach soup and cutlets.
(c) Iceberg lettuce salad and mashed potatoes.
(d) Spinach salad and corn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Donald's reaction when Robert, the youngest of Fred Trump's sons stands up to thank him for the dinner?

2. What had Fred lied about when he was young?

3. What comparison does Mary make between her grandfather's influence on her father and Donald's influence on the country?

4. What is Mary Trump's training?

5. What fiction does Mary say Donald has to perpetuate?

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