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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Washington Square Press series does "The Negro in the City" belong to?
(a) "Problems with America's Suburbs."
(b) "Problems of American Society."
(c) "Difficulties in America."
(d) "The Difficulties of Living in America."

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

3. O'Rourke characterizes what group in Afghanistan as deceitful, violent and self-serving?
(a) The Mujahedeen.
(b) The Taliban.
(c) Al-Qaeda.
(d) The Afghan National Army.

4. What tax did the natives of O'Rourke's town fear that the retirees would inflate?
(a) Food tax.
(b) Property tax.
(c) Hotel tax.
(d) Sales tax.

5. What is the "largest part" of the USS Mobile Bay, according to the author?
(a) Guns.
(b) Electronics.
(c) Men.
(d) Explosives.

6. What was the school drop-out rate in O'Rourke's town?
(a) 11 percent.
(b) 23 percent.
(c) 36 percent.
(d) 42 percent.

7. What was the deadline for the last Soviet troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan?
(a) December 27, 1988.
(b) January, 2 1989.
(c) March 12, 1989.
(d) February 15, 1989.

8. Who was the deputy chief of the DEA's Cocaine Desk when O'Rourke's book was written?
(a) Mario Perez.
(b) Albert Collins.
(c) Mike Mullin.
(d) Dick Weart.

9. How many ninth graders were at the high school in O'Rourke's town?
(a) 324.
(b) 67.
(c) 124.
(d) 445.

10. During Operation Just Cause, O'Rourke was disgusted by the media's hysteria over what?
(a) The use of weapons in a war.
(b) Racial slurs said by soldiers.
(c) Illnesses being brought back to the U.S.
(d) Collateral damage.

11. What is the common enemy that environmentalists have, according to the author?
(a) Waste management companies.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Television.
(d) Big business.

12. The author blames the savings and loan collapse on soaring interest rates caused by what administration?
(a) Bush.
(b) Reagan.
(c) Ford.
(d) Carter.

13. People from O'Rourke's town attempted to block the completion of what?
(a) A movie theater.
(b) An apartment complex.
(c) A liquor store.
(d) A local golf course.

14. O'Rourke says using crack cocaine makes one feel like whom?
(a) Sting.
(b) Bruce Willis.
(c) Bret Michaels.
(d) Arnold Schwarzenegger.

15. O'Rourke accuses ecological activists of ignoring what?
(a) Science.
(b) Citizens.
(c) Real environmental problems.
(d) The government.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day did O'Rourke attend a housing rally?

2. What TV network said the housing rally had 40,000 to 250,000 people present?

3. Every year, O'Rourke attended a meeting of his hometown where people crowd into where?

4. What was the name of O'Rourke's friend who learned to fly a stunt plane and decided to raise cattle?

5. What does O'Rourke call the people who join special interest groups?

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