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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time Who's Looking Out for You? was written, what percentage of American children were born out of wedlock?

2. According to Bill in Chapter 2, what intensifies the behavior of adults?

3. According to Bill, what types of images and sounds flood television and radio?

4. What can stop the cycle of parental abuse?

5. As stated in Chapter 1, what is there a huge gap between in the United States?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the differences between the country today and a hundred years ago? What caused the changes?

2. What example does Bill use to describe how tough it is to trust people, even those considered friends?

3. How does Bill describe President Bush?

4. How did Bill's Catholic School experience contrast with his friends who attended public school?

5. What example does Bill use to show the danger of illegal immigration and the government's unwillingness to deal with it?

6. What is the Judeo-Christian philosophy?

7. Based on Bill's analysis in Chapter 4, how does the media make parenting more difficult?

8. What example does Bill provide of the government's wasteful spending?

9. What problem does Bill Moyers have?

10. What happened between President Clinton and the FBI Director, Louis Freeh?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bill defends religion while taking on the ACLU and their secular efforts.

- Using the information in the book, describe the practices of the ACLU, how they are damaging for the country, and the political reasons behind their actions.

- Explain the way the ACLU has twisted the intent of the philosophy that was applied to the country's foundation.

- Describe the two cases that Bill presents to show the radical attempts made by far left organizations, and the hypocrisy of the ACLU.

Essay Topic 2

As Bill explains in Who's Looking Out For You?, the Iraq war was unfortunately turned into a divisive issue that triggered both support and criticism.

- Analyze Bill's reasons for supporting the war and the logic behind them.

- Describe the media's objections to the war and the examples that Bill uses to show the hypocrisy of those objections.

- Explain two examples of celebrities/broadcasters that incorrectly judged the war and how they were proven wrong.

Essay Topic 3

According to Bill, inner cities suffer from the rampant crime while the media and politicians choose to ignore it.

- Compare the way that crime is dealt with in upscale cities with the way it is overlooked in the inner cities, using Chicago as an example.

- Explain why politicians are unwilling to address the crime problems of the inner cities.

- Describe the ways that people living in the poorer neighborhoods can work with the police to stop the crime that is occurring.

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