USA HISTORY

CONTEMPORARY AMERICA (1992 2013)

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

[SOURCES]
Who raised Barack while he was growing up?

(A) ** Barack’s grandparents

(B) No one

(C) Mr. Walker

(D) Santa Clause

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Barack Obama was raised by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and maternal grandparents Madelyn and Stanley Dunham.

Concept note-2: -From sixth grade through eighth grade at Punahou, Obama lived with his mother and Maya. Obama’s mother completed her coursework at the University of Hawaii for an M.A. in anthropology in December 1974.

Concept note-3: -In his youth, Obama went by the nickname “Barry.” Obama lived with his mother and half-sister, Maya Soetoro, in Hawaii for three years from 1972 to 1975 while his mother was a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Hawaii.