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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 Bill appreciate about his friends?
(a) Their sense of humor.
(b) Their stubbornness.
(c) Their honesty.
(d) Their directness.

2. How does Bill find the country compared to the way it was a hundred years ago?
(a) It is very similar.
(b) It is similar, but some parts have changed.
(c) It is hardly recognizable.
(d) It is mostly similar.

3. According to Bill, where do many social problems start?
(a) With lower income families.
(b) With low self-esteem.
(c) With a bad family life.
(d) With peer pressure.

4. What type of slant does Fox News have with its programming?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Libertarian.
(c) Liberal.
(d) Patriotic.

5. How does Bill describe many of the adults in the United States?
(a) Self-absorbed and superficial.
(b) Neither self-absorbed nor superficial.
(c) Self-absorbed, but not superficial.
(d) Superficial, but not self-absorbed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has student morality been affected by the increase of secularism?

2. What does Bill state is the hardest part of looking back at bad parents?

3. What point about the media does Bill make at the beginning of Chapter 4?

4. What suggestion does Bill make in evaluating friends?

5. How many years did President Bush request Clinton's presidential records be kept confidential?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bill describe his own childhood?

2. How did Bill confront the United Way for their incompetence? What happened afterward?

3. How did Bill's Catholic School experience contrast with his friends who attended public school?

4. What happened between President Clinton and the FBI Director, Louis Freeh?

5. What are some of the guidelines Bill suggests to parents in Chapter 1?

6. What example does Bill provide of the government's wasteful spending?

7. What example does Bill use to show the danger of illegal immigration and the government's unwillingness to deal with it?

8. What are the differences between the country today and a hundred years ago? What caused the changes?

9. How did Congressman Torricelli damage the country by scandalizing the CIA?

10. What is the controversial ruling of the California Circuit Court of Appeals and how is Christmas being included in the battle for religion?

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