USA HISTORY

CONTEMPORARY AMERICA (1992 2013)

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

[SOURCES]
Who did Barack live with in Hawaii?

(A) ** His grandparents

(B) His uncle

(C) His aunt

(D) No one

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Madelyn and Stanley Dunham raised their grandson, Barack Obama from age 10 while his mother and step-father were living in Jakarta, Indonesia, so he could go to school in Hawaii.

Concept note-2: -In mid-1971, Obama moved back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents and attend Punahou School starting in fifth grade.

Concept note-3: -Obama has a half-sister with whom he was raised (Maya Soetoro-Ng) and seven other half-siblings from his Kenyan father’s family-six of them living. Obama’s mother was survived by her Kansas-born mother, Madelyn Dunham, until her death on November 2, 2008, two days before his election to the presidency.

Concept note-4: -Punahou Circle apartments is a 12-story apartment building at 1617 S. Beretania Street in the Makiki neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii. The building was one of the childhood homes of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. Obama lived in the building from 1971 to 1979, when he graduated from high school.