Presidency Quiz

The student who completed this government & politics quiz seems to have been cooking with turpentine; how he could have answered in the way he did was as befuddling to his teacher then as it is to the modern reader today. The teacher claims "You've lost me here, Andrew" for the first question, but it's no clearer in the light of history why he would aver, on a graded quiz, that the pyramidal system of government power appears to stick up the president's...well, he doesn't quite get that far. And after defining the Eastern Establishment as "the establishments of the east", he goes Rain-Man on paper, asking the question back as an answer.

Only questions 1 and 4 are transliterated below; the others are not particularly humorous. Teacher's comments in green.

1.) What is the name given to the White House employee who sits atop a White House staff organized according to a "pyramid" structure?

-cheif of staff (who refers, then to the president, isn't it sort of like the pyramid is sticking up the president's...)
--> You've lost me here, Andrew

4.)  What does the term "Eastern Establishment" mean? Is this a negative or a positive term, according to your personal opinion.

-The establishments of the east, governmental control in east, negative term, definately, definately negative. Don't you think?
--> You can't define term by using that term.