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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: My Country 'Tis of Thee.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the primary weakness of Bill's father?
(a) His inability to trust anyone.
(b) His inability to trust friends.
(c) His inability to trust family.
(d) His inability to trust friends and family.

2. What kind of a job did Bill's father work?
(a) He worked at a job that he mostly liked, but disliked the pay.
(b) He worked at a job that he did not like or dislike.
(c) He worked at a job that he enjoyed.
(d) He worked at a job that he hated.

3. What does Bill state is the hardest part of looking back at bad parents?
(a) Learning to drop the anger and bitterness.
(b) Learning why they made mistakes.
(c) Learning from their mistakes.
(d) Learning to appreciate the positive things.

4. In the examples given in Chapter 1, the children's services department in which state allowed a child to fall through the cracks?
(a) Florida.
(b) California.
(c) Vermont.
(d) Illinois.

5. Which company does Bill use as an example of the government's inability to run an effective business?
(a) Amtrak.
(b) Swift.
(c) Steam.
(d) Union Pacific.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can stop the cycle of parental abuse?

2. How does Bill O'Reilly describe himself politically?

3. According to Bill, what effect does having children out of wedlock have?

4. What did the animosity between Clinton and FBI Director, Louis Freeh, cause?

5. What kind of people does Bill think should not be "fixed"?

(see the answer key)

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