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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. O'Rourke recalls spending an evening in what police department?
(a) The Atlanta police department.
(b) The Washington, DC police department.
(c) The New York police department.
(d) The Los Angeles police department.

2. How many poor people does O'Rourke say live in the U.S.?
(a) 32.5 million.
(b) 24.2 million.
(c) 45 million.
(d) 12.4 million.

3. Who said, "Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die"?
(a) Mario Perez.
(b) Albert Collins.
(c) Dick Weart.
(d) Mike Mullin.

4. What drug does O'Rourke says makes one acutely sensitive?
(a) LSD.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) PCP.

5. What percent of poor people in America own telephones, according to George Gilder?
(a) 60 percent.
(b) 70 percent.
(c) 80 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

6. O'Rourke considers what war to be a rare success for U.S. foreign policy?
(a) The war in Japan.
(b) The war in Afghanistan.
(c) The war in Vietnam.
(d) The war in Korea.

7. Who wrote the pamphlet called "'The Poor among Us--Challenge and Opportunity"?
(a) Stewart Matthews.
(b) Max Stephens.
(c) Stuart Marx.
(d) Maxwell Stewart.

8. O'Rourke argues that modern, poor Americans earn greater income than the middle-class Americans of what year?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1850.

9. At the town meeting which O'Rourke attended, the town natives sat where?
(a) The front row.
(b) Scattered throughout the rows.
(c) The two middle rows.
(d) The back row.

10. What is the name of the hurricane that O'Rourke's wife asked him about?
(a) Avery.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Marcus.
(d) Hugo.

11. In a disclaimer to the section, "Defense Policy: Cry 'Havoc!' and Let Slip the Hogs of Peace," O'Rourke says he now feels that what war may prove profitable?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) The Gulf War.
(d) The Cold War.

12. O'Rourke mocked college bohos at the housing rally who were dressed in what color?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Beige.
(d) Pink.

13. What drug does O'Rourke say made kids psychotic?
(a) Heroin.
(b) LSD.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) PCP.

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

15. Soldiers told about fighting in Panama in what magazine?
(a) "Military Monthly."
(b) "Army of One."
(c) "Soldiers."
(d) "Army Today."

Short Answer Questions

1. What drug does O'Rourke says makes a person think they can fly?

2. In "Defense Policy: Cry 'Havoc!' and "Let Slip the Hogs of Peace," O'Rourke worried that what country still posed a threat and might be waiting for America to fall beneath the weight of its own dissent?

3. O'Rourke says the middle class has no reason to be concerned about what drug?

4. What is the "largest part" of the USS Mobile Bay, according to the author?

5. O'Rourke concludes that, because government can stifle the free market, government is what?

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