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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Back to the Ormsby House" was Thompson's short take on the 1986 ______ elections.
(a) Senatorial.
(b) Presidential.
(c) Gubernatorial.
(d) Congressional.

2. What did Thompson assert had been dysfunctional for many years, in "Dance of the Seven Dwarfs?"
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The Congress.
(d) The United States.

3. In "The Trickle-Down Theory," Thompson considered that acid rain and what would be the legacy of the Reagan Administration?
(a) Depression.
(b) Recession.
(c) Cancer.
(d) AIDS.

4. Who celebrated wildly after the Gary Hart scandal, according to Thompson, in "A Wild and Crazy Guy?"
(a) Bush.
(b) Haig.
(c) Biden.
(d) Reagan.

5. Senator Warren Rudman was a senator from where?
(a) Nebraska.
(b) Maine.
(c) New Hampshire.
(d) Minnesota.

6. In "The Scum of the Earth," Thompson detailed a feud between Jerry Falwell, Jim Bakker, Pat Robertson and who?
(a) Jesse Jackson.
(b) James Williams.
(c) Oral Roberts,
(d) Kieth Baker.

7. In "The New Dumb," Thompson concluded that the Democratic Party had learned nothing since which election?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1980.

8. Who found Thompson, in "Trapped in Harding Park?"
(a) Anderson.
(b) Skinner.
(c) Jack Parker.
(d) Ralph.

9. Who was Nixon's Chief of Domestic Affairs?
(a) John Erlichman.
(b) Ed Meese.
(c) Alexander Haig.
(d) Edward Walton.

10. In "The Worm Turns," Thompson wrote that the Reagan Administration looked weak because of the cancellation of a summit with who?
(a) Yassir Arafat.
(b) Mikhail Gorbachev.
(c) The Israeli Prime Minister.
(d) The Dalai Lama.

11. In "The Time Has Come," Thompson discussed a poll that said the majority of voters would vote for who in November?
(a) Michael Dukakis.
(b) Jesse Jackson.
(c) George Bush.
(d) Gary Hart.

12. In "Fat Men on Horseback," Thompson concluded that the main difference between Iran-Contra and Watergate was that Iran-Contra was what?
(a) Far more complex.
(b) Far more evil.
(c) Far less evil.
(d) Far more dangerous.

13. Thompson wrote that no press secretary had truly been good since either Pierre Salinger under Kennedy or who at the beginning of Reagan's first term?
(a) Jim Brady.
(b) Marlin Fitzwater.
(c) Ed Meese.
(d) Robert McFarlane.

14. Who was forced to relocate PLO headquarters from Tunis, in "Let the Good Times Roll?"
(a) Yassir Arafat.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Vladimir Putin.
(d) Eugene Hasenfus.

15. In "The Garden of Agony," Thompson analyzed the role of what in politics?
(a) Money.
(b) Fame.
(c) Religion.
(d) Charisma.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Weak in the Weird" is an analysis of whose presidential campaign?

2. The weapons supplied to the Iranian regime killed hundreds of marines where?

3. Who did a leak say was not really in the hospital, in "The Gizzard of Darkness?"

4. What National Security Adviser attempted suicide in "Gone with the Wind?"

5. What obscure musician did Skinner claim George Bush is a fan of, in "The Other George Bush?"

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