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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose testimony did Thompson analyze, in "Cowboys at Sea?"
(a) George Schultz.
(b) Ed Meese.
(c) Oliver North.
(d) George Bush.

2. Who did Thompson's friend bet on in his Superbowl bet, in "Trapped in Harding Park?"
(a) New York Giants.
(b) Denver Broncos.
(c) New England Patriots.
(d) Chicago Bears.

3. What Democratic Senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee was a presidential nominee?
(a) Michael Dukakis.
(b) George Bush.
(c) Joe Biden.
(d) Jesse Jackson.

4. Whose testimony was described, in "Blame It on Dead Bill?"
(a) George Bush.
(b) Ronald Reagan.
(c) Ed Meese.
(d) Oliver North.

5. What Democratic Senator did Thompson attack in "The Losers' Club?"
(a) Gary Hart.
(b) Joe Biden.
(c) Terry Sanford.
(d) Jesse Jackson.

6. Who did a leak say was not really in the hospital, in "The Gizzard of Darkness?"
(a) Ed Meese.
(b) William Johnson.
(c) Andrew Casey.
(d) William Casey.

7. Thompson wrote that no press secretary had truly been good since either Pierre Salinger under Kennedy or who at the beginning of Reagan's first term?
(a) Jim Brady.
(b) Ed Meese.
(c) Robert McFarlane.
(d) Marlin Fitzwater.

8. Who was Richard Nixon's attorney during the Watergate scandal?
(a) Edward Walton.
(b) Michael Enderson.
(c) Herbert Kalmbach.
(d) John Erlichman.

9. Who was likely to go on trial, in "The American Dream?"
(a) George Bush.
(b) Joe Biden.
(c) Oliver North.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

10. What did Thompson and his friend do after the Super Bowl, in "Trapped in Harding Park?"
(a) Play pool.
(b) Play golf.
(c) Play music.
(d) Arm wrestle.

11. In "Wooing the Degenerate Vote," Thompson predicted that who would make a comeback and win the 1988 election?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) George Bush.

12. What happened to Reagan's veto on sanctions in South Africa, in "Loose Cannon on the Deck?"
(a) It is rejected.
(b) It is dead in the water.
(c) It is overruled.
(d) It is enacted.

13. Who did Thompson believe clearly won the Democratic presidential nomination debate?
(a) Michael Dukakis.
(b) Paul Simon.
(c) Joe Biden.
(d) Art Garfunkel.

14. Who was the House of Representatives Counsel in the Oliver North hearings?
(a) Michael Edwards.
(b) Mark Allen Alexander.
(c) William. Hoff.
(d) John Nields.

15. In "The End of an Era," Thompson laid most of the fault of Reagan's presidency at the feet of whom?
(a) Ed Meese.
(b) George Bush.
(c) Richard Haynes.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Secretary of State that Thompson addresses in "Letter to the President?"

2. What National Security Adviser attempted suicide in "Gone with the Wind?"

3. What did Thompson assert had been dysfunctional for many years, in "Dance of the Seven Dwarfs?"

4. Who won the 1987 Super Bowl?

5. What was the chapter title "A Wild and Crazy Guy" in reference to?

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