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

2. O'Rourke's friend's son got busted for selling what drug?
(a) PCP.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Marijuana.

3. How many poor people in America live in homes with a heated pool or a Jacuzzi, according to George Gilder?
(a) 14,000.
(b) 22,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 90,000.

4. What name did O'Rourke give to the town where he lives?
(a) Middlebrooke.
(b) Hopeville.
(c) Blatherboro.
(d) Anytown.

5. O'Rourke visited a filthy, smelly, government-subsidized apartment complex in what city?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Compton.
(d) Newark.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many ninth graders were at the high school in O'Rourke's town?

3. The author blames the savings and loan collapse on soaring interest rates caused by what administration?

4. O'Rourke believed his town spent too much on what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does O'Rourke feel about the seriousness of the problem of crack cocaine in America?

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

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

5. How does O'Rourke feel about Social Security after visiting the AARP?

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

7. How does O'Rourke describe environmentalists?

8. Explain how the government wastes billions of dollars on farm subsidies, according to O'Rourke.

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

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

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