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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. How much was the bailout of the savings-and-loan industry?
(a) $500 million.
(b) $100 billion.
(c) $500 billion.
(d) $10 billion.

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

3. What is the name of the alliance that O'Rourke traveled into poverty stricken areas with?
(a) Times Square.
(b) Phoenix House.
(c) Guardian Angels.
(d) Idealists.

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

5. What does O'Rourke call the people who join special interest groups?
(a) Permanently Violent.
(b) Perennially Indignant.
(c) Perpetually Vehement.
(d) Enduringly Inflamed.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What is the name of the psychiatric professor that O'Rourke talked to about the crack cocaine problem?

5. What branch of the military uses the USS Mobile Bay?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does O'Rourke say that Blatherboro suffers from stupidity?

2. How does O'Rourke feel about American poverty at the beginning of "Poverty Policy: How to Endow Privation"?

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

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

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

6. How does O'Rourke feel about the government's treatment of the nation's problem with drugs?

7. What does O'Rourke mean when he says that Social Security is like the nation picking its own pocket?

8. Who does O'Rourke blame for the savings and loan collapse?

9. Why does O'Rourke say Americans will not find a solution to the problem of drugs in the country?

10. How does O'Rourke feel about the war in Afghanistan?

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