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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the town meeting which O'Rourke attended, the elderly retired people sat where?
(a) Scattered throughout the rows.
(b) In the front row.
(c) In the back row.
(d) They sit closest to the exit.

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

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

4. What drug does O'Rourke says makes a person think they can fly?
(a) LSD.
(b) Heroin.
(c) PCP.
(d) Cocaine.

5. What country did O'Rourke visit in the wake of Operation Just Cause?
(a) Chile.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Panama.
(d) Brazil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hoping to see poverty first hand, O'Rourke took a trip where?

2. What drug does O'Rourke say made kids psychotic?

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

4. Soldiers told about fighting in Panama in what magazine?

5. Who was the acting director of Public Affairs at Customs when O'Rourke's book was written?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Blatherboro block the completion of a local golf course?

2. How does O'Rourke feel about Social Security after visiting the AARP?

3. Why does O'Rourke feel that the best policy for dealing with Afghani Pathan tribesman is to just stay away from them?

4. Why does O'Rourke feels that Blatherboro is out of its depth when it comes to city planning?

5. How does O'Rourke describe Blatherboro?

6. Why does O'Rourke say Americans will not find a solution to the problem of drugs in the country?

7. What role do special interest groups play in politics?

8. How does O'Rourke feel about claims of collateral damage during Operation Just Cause?

9. Why does O'Rourke fault environmentalists for making "big business" out to be the enemy?

10. Why does O'Rourke seem to think his family was stronger because they were not given any help?

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