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

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

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

4. O'Rourke believed his town spent too little on what?
(a) Renovating old buildings.
(b) The fire department.
(c) Road improvements.
(d) Law enforcement.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What Washington Square Press series does "The Negro in the City" belong to?

5. Townsfolk from O'Rourke's town decided that any new sewer system costing more than how much had to be approved by a special town meeting?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe O'Rourke's experience when he joined the Guardian Angels on a drug den raid.

3. How does O'Rourke describe environmentalists?

4. How does O'Rourke see a connection between the fear of crack cocaine in America and racism?

5. How does O'Rourke feel about the government's treatment of the nation's problem with drugs?

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

7. Why does O'Rourke believe that a lot of money should be spent on the American military?

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

9. Explain how the government wastes billions of dollars on farm subsidies, according to O'Rourke.

10. How does O'Rourke feel about the Guardian Angels after his experience with them?

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