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1. In which book did O'Rourke attempt to explain the complex operations of the United States Government?
2. In which book does P.J. O'Rourke tackle ecological issues such as overpopulation, plague, and natural disasters?
3. O'Rourke's book "Eat the Rich" focuses on this subject.
4. This book covers O'Rourke's travels to Kuwait, Africa, Berlin, Moscow, Ulster, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Jordan, and Eastern Saudi Arabia, among other places.
5. In "Eat the Rich," O'Rourke says that Hemingway's widow donated Hemingway's house to the government, headed by Castro. He then quips: "And ___ donated ___ to ___."
6. In his book "Give War a Chance," O'Rourke speaks of a parlor game he calls D-U-M, which he plays with a book called "Everything to Gain." The goal of the game is to win points by succeeding in picking out the dumbest sentences in the book. Who wrote this book?
7. When O'Rourke first began his journalistic career, he was far from being a "Republican Party Reptile." He wrote for a paper that was "opposed to war and capitalism." What was this paper called?
8. In "Eat the Rich," O'Rourke writes that socialism "is inherently _____ in philosophy."
9. In "All the Trouble in the World," P.J. O'Rourke points out that when DDT spraying was stopped in response to environmental concerns, the number of cases of malaria in Sri Lanka jumped from 17 to _______.
10. In "All the Trouble in the World," O'Rourke talks about how there is much social discomfort and fumbling in a Black World Studies class. People are not sure whether to call people "black" or "African-American." O'Rourke quips, "How much better if we just called each other _______"
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