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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. O'Rourke characterizes what group in Afghanistan as deceitful, violent and self-serving?
(a) The Taliban.
(b) The Mujahedeen.
(c) The Afghan National Army.
(d) Al-Qaeda.

3. O'Rourke says using crack cocaine makes one feel like whom?
(a) Bruce Willis.
(b) Bret Michaels.
(c) Arnold Schwarzenegger.
(d) Sting.

4. What was O'Rourke's family's socioeconomic status when he was a child?
(a) O'Rourke grew up in a very wealthy family.
(b) O'Rourke grew up in a poor family.
(c) O'Rourke grew up in poverty and lived in government housing.
(d) O'Rourke grew up in a middle-class family.

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

6. How many ninth graders were at the high school in O'Rourke's town?
(a) 445.
(b) 324.
(c) 67.
(d) 124.

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

8. What senator said "A lot more of whatever needs doing needs to be done--let's spend, spend, spend" in response to the war on drugs?
(a) Joe Biden.
(b) Bernie Sanders.
(c) Byron Dorgan.
(d) Carl Levin.

9. How did O'Rourke feel about the USS Mobile Bay?
(a) He thought it was a waste of government money.
(b) He thought it was a great investment by the government.
(c) He was unimpressed.
(d) He saw it as a terrible move for foreign policy.

10. What is the official office of the Drug Czar?
(a) Association of American Drug Reduction Policy.
(b) Office of American Drug Control Policy.
(c) Association of National Drug Reduction Policy.
(d) Office of National Drug Control Policy.

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

12. During Operation Just Cause, O'Rourke was disgusted by the media's hysteria over what?
(a) Illnesses being brought back to the U.S.
(b) Racial slurs said by soldiers.
(c) Collateral damage.
(d) The use of weapons in a war.

13. The author blames the savings and loan collapse on soaring interest rates caused by what administration?
(a) Ford.
(b) Bush.
(c) Carter.
(d) Reagan.

14. How does O'Rourke feel when he walks through a crowded, third-world bazaar in Afghanistan and sees the free market in action?
(a) Shock.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Anger.

15. Who was the deputy chief of the DEA's Cocaine Desk when O'Rourke's book was written?
(a) Dick Weart.
(b) Mike Mullin.
(c) Albert Collins.
(d) Mario Perez.

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Rourke argues that pollution is a byproduct of what?

2. Who said, "Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die"?

3. In "Defense Policy: Cry 'Havoc!' and "Let Slip the Hogs of Peace," O'Rourke worried that what country still posed a threat and might be waiting for America to fall beneath the weight of its own dissent?

4. What branch of the military uses the USS Mobile Bay?

5. O'Rourke says a cheap alternative to fix the failing school system could involve sending the children to what kind of school?

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