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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Back to the Ormsby House" was Thompson's short take on the 1986 ______ elections.
(a) Senatorial.
(b) Congressional.
(c) Presidential.
(d) Gubernatorial.

2. Thompson wrote that if Oliver North wanted to avoid prison, he would have to indict who in "Ollie's Choice?"
(a) Reagan or Meese.
(b) Meese or Bush.
(c) Bush or Reagan.
(d) Meese or Anders.

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

4. In "The Trickle-Down Theory," Thompson considered that acid rain and what would be the legacy of the Reagan Administration?
(a) Depression.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Recession.
(d) Cancer.

5. Thompson believed who would be forced to retire, in "The Year of the Pig?"
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) Ed Meese.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) Herbert Huncke.

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

7. "The Weak in the Weird" is an analysis of whose presidential campaign?
(a) Gary Hart.
(b) Michael Dukakis.
(c) George Bush.
(d) Joe Biden.

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

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

10. In "Cowboys at Sea," Thompson related the testimony in court to an attack of an oil tanker where?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Iran.
(c) Kuwait.
(d) Afghanistan.

11. In "Caligula and the 7 Dwarfs," Thompson compared the implosion of Gary Hart's political career to what?
(a) "Casey at the Bat."
(b) A genie's lamp.
(c) A cesspool.
(d) A rainbow.

12. 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) Marlin Fitzwater.
(b) Jim Brady.
(c) Robert McFarlane.
(d) Ed Meese.

13. In "The Garden of Agony," Thompson analyzed the role of what in politics?
(a) Money.
(b) Religion.
(c) Charisma.
(d) Fame.

14. Who was Ronald Reagan meeting with in "Loose Cannon on the Deck?"
(a) The Chinese Dictator.
(b) The French President.
(c) The Polish President.
(d) Gorbachev.

15. Who saw the scandals as a witch hunt against Ronald Reagan, in "God Bless Colonel North?"
(a) Ed Meese.
(b) Patrick Buchanan.
(c) Nancy Reagan.
(d) Geoge Bush.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who won the 1987 Super Bowl?

2. What did Thompson kill, in "A Death in the Family?"

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

4. Whose testimony was described, in "Blame It on Dead Bill?"

5. Thompson discussed the large number of what in America, in "Four More Years?"

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