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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. How many tenth graders were at the high school in O'Rourke's town?
(a) 98.
(b) 79.
(c) 231.
(d) 478.

2. What exists in a state of perpetual failure because motion is valued above direction and achievement?
(a) Government.
(b) The Democratic party.
(c) Social security.
(d) The Republican party.

3. Who was the director of the Office of Management and Budget at the time George H. W. Bush's 1991 budget was completed?
(a) Peter Orszag.
(b) Alice M. Rivlin.
(c) Franklin D. Raines.
(d) Richard Darman.

4. When O'Rourke paints a cynical picture of the concept of "majority rule," what does he say that every meal will be?
(a) Pizza.
(b) Fried rice.
(c) Fried chicken.
(d) Macaroni and cheese.

5. O'Rourke says the Republican convention had the intellectual content of song lyrics by what band?
(a) Poison.
(b) White Snake.
(c) Van Halen.
(d) Guns n' Roses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has a reputation as being the unofficial fourth branch of government?

2. O'Rourke presents an unflattering picture of House Democratic efforts to talk environmentalism in advance of what?

3. In what year was a government study released on "runaway car syndrome" in an Audi model?

4. O'Rourke's wife asked him about a hurricane that hit what state?

5. How much was the bailout of the savings-and-loan industry?

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