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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. O'Rourke concludes that, because government can stifle the free market, government is what?
(a) Necessary.
(b) Immoral.
(c) All powerful.
(d) Frightening.

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

4. O'Rourke argues against military cuts by talking about the happiness that every male feels when he has what in his hand?
(a) A gun.
(b) His country's flag.
(c) His wife's hand.
(d) A paycheck.

5. What percent of poor people in America own their own homes, according to George Gilder?
(a) 5 percent.
(b) 20 percent.
(c) 40 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

6. O'Rourke argues that pollution is a byproduct of what?
(a) Greed.
(b) Progress.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Laziness.

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

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

9. Every year, O'Rourke attended a meeting of his hometown where people crowd into where?
(a) The council chambers.
(b) A community center meeting hall.
(c) A church.
(d) A high-school gym.

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

11. Hoping to see poverty first hand, O'Rourke took a trip where?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Queens.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Staten Island.

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

13. A woman at the housing rally who said she was homeless had how many kids?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

14. In what state did O'Rourke live?
(a) New York.
(b) New Hampshire.
(c) Maine.
(d) Virginia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many poor people does O'Rourke say live in the U.S.?

2. O'Rourke says the hysteria over drugs in the middle class could be the product of what?

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

4. O'Rourke says that because America is the richest nation on Earth, he is surprised to still what on the street?

5. O'Rourke is critical of the way that America hands over food, aid and arms to what country?

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