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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the common enemy that environmentalists have, according to the author?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Waste management companies.
(c) Big business.
(d) Television.

2. Who wrote the pamphlet called "'The Poor among Us--Challenge and Opportunity"?
(a) Stewart Matthews.
(b) Max Stephens.
(c) Stuart Marx.
(d) Maxwell Stewart.

3. O'Rourke is critical of the way that America hands over food, aid and arms to what country?
(a) China.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Iran.
(d) Iraq.

4. What is the name of the Michael Harrington book which says America had a hidden poverty?
(a) "My America."
(b) "The Other Side."
(c) "America on the Outs."
(d) "The Other America."

5. How many poor people does O'Rourke say ask him for money on his way to work every day?
(a) 1.9 million.
(b) 2.3 million.
(c) 3.4 million.
(d) 6.8 million.

6. Every year, O'Rourke attended a meeting of his hometown where people crowd into where?
(a) A high-school gym.
(b) A community center meeting hall.
(c) A church.
(d) The council chambers.

7. What drug does O'Rourke says makes one acutely sensitive?
(a) PCP.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) LSD.
(d) Marijuana.

8. O'Rourke visits Afghanistan to cover the expected fall of what city?
(a) Mazar-e Sharif.
(b) Herat.
(c) Kabul.
(d) Kandahar.

9. O'Rourke says the middle class has no reason to be concerned about what drug?
(a) Crystal meth.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Crack cocaine.
(d) LSD.

10. O'Rourke concludes that, because government can stifle the free market, government is what?
(a) Frightening.
(b) All powerful.
(c) Necessary.
(d) Immoral.

11. How many poor people in America live in homes with a heated pool or a Jacuzzi, according to George Gilder?
(a) 22,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 14,000.
(d) 90,000.

12. In what state did O'Rourke live?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Maine.
(c) Virginia.
(d) New York.

13. O'Rourke visited a filthy, smelly, government-subsidized apartment complex in what city?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Compton.
(c) Newark.
(d) Brooklyn.

14. O'Rourke says the hysteria over drugs in the middle class could be the product of what?
(a) A corrupt prison system.
(b) Agoraphobia.
(c) Sexist.
(d) Racism.

15. Why do retirees move to the state where O'Rourke lives?
(a) For its golf courses.
(b) For its amusement parks.
(c) For its tax policy.
(d) For its beaches.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does O'Rourke believe the government wastes on farm subsidies?

2. What is the name of the alliance that O'Rourke traveled into poverty stricken areas with?

3. What tax did the natives of O'Rourke's town fear that the retirees would inflate?

4. O'Rourke argues that modern, poor Americans earn greater income than the middle-class Americans of what year?

5. O'Rourke visited a government-owned complex with windows made of what?

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