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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of life does O'Rourke say Americans lead?
(a) A spoiled life.
(b) A sad life.
(c) A complex life.
(d) A whiffle life.

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

4. What is the USS Mobile Bay?
(a) A helicoptor.
(b) A tank.
(c) A submarine.
(d) A missile platform.

5. What percent of poor people in America own their own homes, according to George Gilder?
(a) 40 percent.
(b) 5 percent.
(c) 50 percent.
(d) 20 percent.

6. What does O'Rourke call the people who join special interest groups?
(a) Perennially Indignant.
(b) Perpetually Vehement.
(c) Permanently Violent.
(d) Enduringly Inflamed.

7. O'Rourke's friend's son got busted for selling what drug?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) PCP.
(d) Marijuana.

8. What is the "largest part" of the USS Mobile Bay, according to the author?
(a) Explosives.
(b) Electronics.
(c) Guns.
(d) Men.

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

10. In what year did the government begin formulating agricultural policy?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1794.

11. At the town meeting which O'Rourke attended, the town natives sat where?
(a) The front row.
(b) The two middle rows.
(c) The back row.
(d) Scattered throughout the rows.

12. What Washington Square Press series does "The Negro in the City" belong to?
(a) "Problems with America's Suburbs."
(b) "The Difficulties of Living in America."
(c) "Difficulties in America."
(d) "Problems of American Society."

13. What was the deadline for the last Soviet troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan?
(a) December 27, 1988.
(b) January, 2 1989.
(c) March 12, 1989.
(d) February 15, 1989.

14. Hoping to see poverty first hand, O'Rourke took a trip where?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Queens.
(c) Staten Island.
(d) Manhattan.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Every year, O'Rourke attended a meeting of his hometown where people crowd into where?

3. How does O'Rourke feel when he walks through a crowded, third-world bazaar in Afghanistan and sees the free market in action?

4. How many tenth graders were at the high school in O'Rourke's town?

5. What name did O'Rourke give to the town where he lives?

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