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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. At the town meeting which O'Rourke attended, the elderly retired people sat where?
(a) They sit closest to the exit.
(b) In the back row.
(c) In the front row.
(d) Scattered throughout the rows.

2. What branch of the military uses the USS Mobile Bay?
(a) Navy.
(b) Airforce.
(c) Marines.
(d) Army.

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

4. What is the name of the Michael Harrington book which says America had a hidden poverty?
(a) "The Other Side."
(b) "America on the Outs."
(c) "My America."
(d) "The Other America."

5. What drug does O'Rourke says makes a person think they can fly?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) LSD.
(c) PCP.
(d) Heroin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percent of poor people in America own telephones, according to George Gilder?

2. O'Rourke says it is best to simply stay away from what Afghani tribesman?

3. What is the common enemy that environmentalists have, according to the author?

4. Hoping to see poverty first hand, O'Rourke took a trip where?

5. O'Rourke says a cheap alternative to fix the failing school system could involve sending the children to what kind of school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does O'Rourke describe Blatherboro?

2. How does O'Rourke feel about the Guardian Angels after his experience with them?

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

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

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

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

7. What does O'Rourke see when he spends an evening with the Washington DC police department?

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

9. How does O'Rourke describe the USS Mobile Bay?

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

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