Deck 20: The Trump Years

Question 1

Donald Trump's 2016 candidacy for president was favored by

A) Republican leaders
B) Republican voters
C) Moderates
D) All of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The biggest strategic blunder made by the Clinton campaign was to

A) Call Trump's supporters a "basket of deplorables"
B) Campaign in long-shot states rather than key battleground areas
C) Fail to use technology effectively
D) Treat Trump like he was not a threat

Answer 2

B

Question 3

In 2016, Clinton won

A) The popular vote
B) The electoral college
C) Both popular vote and electoral college
D) Neither popular vote nor electoral college
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Answer 3

A

Question 4

Trump's inaugural address

A) Celebrated a conservative agenda
B) Reached out to moderates
C) Promised to govern for all Americans
D) Failed to happen because of rain

Question 5

-This poster for the Women's March evokes

A) The Statue of Liberty
B) Black Power posters
C) Rays of light
D) All of the above

Question 6

Trump's primary policy positions included

A) Hostility to immigration
B) Opposition to NATO
C) An interest in working more closely with Russia
D) All of the above

Question 7

The largest domestic achievement of the Trump presidency was

A) An improved relationship with Russia
B) A tax cut whose benefits went primarily to the wealthy
C) Elimination of the Affordable Care Act
D) All of the above

Question 8

Trump sought to change America's relationship with North Korea by

A) Denouncing North Korean President Kim at the United Nations
B) Seeking a personal meeting with Kim
C) Pursuing a multilateral treaty to reduce North Korean nuclear capabilities
D) All of the above

Question 9

One of the scandals that dominated the Trump presidency was

A) Trump's relationship with Kim Jong Un of North Korea
B) Trump's treatment of America's European allies
C) The question of whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election in Trump's favor
D) Trump's preference for unilateral over multilateral action

Question 10

Trump was impeached in 2019 for

A) Interfering in the presidential election
B) Conspiring with Russia to help get elected president
C) Withholding aid to Ukraine as part of a quid pro quo
D) Perjury

Question 11

Black Lives Matter was founded in response to

A) The 2016 election of Donald Trump
B) The 2020 death of George Floyd
C) The 2013 acquittal of the murderer of Trayvon Martin
D) The 2008 election of Barack Obama

Question 12

-This image of protestors confronting police is from one of the largest series of Black Lives Matter demonstrations, after the death of _______ in Ferguson, Missouri

A) Eric Garner
B) Michael Brown
C) Trayvon Martin
D) George Floyd

Question 13

When COVID-19 began spreading around the world, President Trump

A) Understood the severity of the situation, but chose not to acknowledge it
B) Was oblivious to the crisis confronting the country
C) Immediately shut down the entire US
D) Took immediate action to marshal the resources of the federal government behind testing and contact tracing to contain the virus

Question 14

Trump's public statements during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic focused on

A) Optimism and calls for calm
B) Frantic action
C) Pure pessimism about the potential impact of the virus
D) Waffling between optimism and pessimism

Question 15

Biden's victory in the _______ primary turned his campaign around, and began his march toward the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.

A) Iowa
B) New Hampshire
C) California
D) South Carolina

Question 16

Biden's presidential campaign focused on

A) The need to restore unity to the country
B) The need to move left
C) The need to embrace a more diverse electorate
D) Embracing partisanship

Question 17

Trump's main constituency was

A) White men
B) Working-class people
C) Women
D) College-educated people

Question 18

Just before the 2020 election Trump nominated _______ to the Supreme Court

A) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
B) Brett Kavanaugh
C) Amy Barrett
D) John Roberts

Question 19

A party in the Rose Garden celebrating Amy Barrett's nomination as Supreme Court justice was unwise because

A) It threw his unorthodox actions in voters' faces
B) Many of the attendees contracted COVID-19
C) Trump was accused of trying to throw the election
D) It was bad luck to celebrate before the nominee was confirmed

Question 20

Biden won the 2020 election by the largest margin of votes since

A) 1932
B) 1960
C) 1980
D) 2004