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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Our Government: What the Fuck Do They Do All Day and Why Does it Cost So Goddamned Much Money? pp. 109-122.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many letters from citizens does O'Rourke imagine that congressmen receive each year?
(a) More than one million.
(b) Hundreds of thousands.
(c) A few thousand.
(d) Tens of thousands.

2. How long did Jesse Jackson propose to freeze military spending?
(a) Four years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two years.
(d) One year.

3. What is the official office of the Drug Czar?
(a) Association of American Drug Reduction Policy.
(b) Office of National Drug Control Policy.
(c) Office of American Drug Control Policy.
(d) Association of National Drug Reduction Policy.

4. Who was the solicitor general during a flag desecration case?
(a) Rex E. Lee.
(b) Kenneth Starr.
(c) Charles Fried.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

5. What does O'Rourke describe as an organism whose sole purpose is to aggrandize those in power?
(a) The White House.
(b) The media.
(c) The American government.
(d) The election process.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was George H. W. Bush's first Drug Czar?

2. Who told the Atlanta convention that the Democratic party "needs both its left wing and its right wing to fly"?

3. How did O'Rourke describe Reagan's social programs?

4. Who was the director of the Office of Management and Budget at the time George H. W. Bush's 1991 budget was completed?

5. In what year did a flag desecration case take place?

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