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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through At Home in the Parliament of Whores.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the hurricane that O'Rourke's wife asked him about?

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

3. What percent of poor people in America own their own homes, according to George Gilder?

4. A woman at the housing rally who said she was homeless had how many kids?

5. On what day was George H. W. Bush's 1991 budget finally "hammered out"?

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