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What happened in 2017? Test your knowledge with our year-end news quiz

Nation Dec 22, 2017 5:32 PM EDT

Donald Trump’s inauguration as president, major hurricanes that battered the Gulf, the first solar eclipse to cross the continental United States in a century and a cholera crisis in Yemen — it’s fair to say 2017 was a whirlwind of news.

How much of it do you remember? Test your knowledge with this end-of-year quiz.

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