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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does O'Rourke say is the ultimate special interest group?
(a) Social Security.
(b) National Rifle Association.
(c) Energy Lobby.
(d) Sierra Club.

2. O'Rourke visits Afghanistan to cover the expected fall of what city?
(a) Kandahar.
(b) Mazar-e Sharif.
(c) Herat.
(d) Kabul.

3. Who was the acting director of Public Affairs at Customs when O'Rourke's book was written?
(a) Mike Mullin.
(b) Albert Collins.
(c) Dick Weart.
(d) Mario Perez.

4. What senator said "A lot more of whatever needs doing needs to be done--let's spend, spend, spend" in response to the war on drugs?
(a) Byron Dorgan.
(b) Bernie Sanders.
(c) Joe Biden.
(d) Carl Levin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Rourke believed his town spent too little on what?

2. What is the name of the Michael Harrington book which says America had a hidden poverty?

3. What was O'Rourke's family's socioeconomic status when he was a child?

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

5. O'Rourke says that special interest sounds like something out of a cartoon by whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does O'Rourke feels that Blatherboro is out of its depth when it comes to city planning?

2. How does O'Rourke feel about the housing project he visits in Newark?

3. Why does O'Rourke feel that the best policy for dealing with Afghani Pathan tribesman is to just stay away from them?

4. Why does O'Rourke seem to think his family was stronger because they were not given any help?

5. How does O'Rourke describe environmentalists?

6. What does the author mean when he says that Americans live a "whiffle life"?

7. How does O'Rourke feel about Panama when he goes there in the wake of Operation Just Cause?

8. What role do special interest groups play in politics?

9. Describe O'Rourke's experience when he joined the Guardian Angels on a drug den raid.

10. How did Blatherboro block the completion of a local golf course?

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