A) 1/55th
B) 1/40th
C) 1/25th
D) 1/6th

9. Which of the following excuses has Al Gore tried to use in reference to the Buddhist temple fundraiser scandal, in which tens of thousands of foreign funds were illegally funneled to the DNC?

A) "Number one, we have strictly abided by all of the campaign finance laws, strictly. There've been no violations."
B) "The DNC set up the event, asked me to attend it. It was not billed as a fundraiser. It was billed as a community outreach event."
C) "I was informed that this outreach event was sponsored by the Asian-American Leadership Council of the DNC, and participation in the council required a prior donation."
D) "I did not know that it was a fundraiser."
E) All of the above.

10. Which of the following quotes are attributable to probable Reform Party nominee Pat Buchanan?

A) Adolph Hitler was "an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the Great War, a political organizer of the first rank."
B) "The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war on nature and now nature is exacting its retribution."
C) Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko is "the porch-nigger of the Politburo."
D) "Rail as they will against 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism ... The momma bird builds the nest. So it was, so it ever shall be."
E) All of the above

11. When Al Gore said to a Southern audience, "I tell you, I've plowed the ground, put in the seed beds, I've planted it, hoed it, wormed it, suckered it, cut it, spiked it, put it in the barns, stripped it, and sold it," what is the "it" he was referring to?

A) cotton
B) marijuana
C) soft money
D) tobacco

12. "There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The 'negroes' of [his hometown] had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours." Identify the author.

A) David Duke
B) George Wallace
C) George Lincoln Rockwell
D) Pat Buchanan

13. The unprecedented campaign spending of George W. Bush from March 7, 1999, the day he announced the formation of his exploratory committee, until March 2000, the end of his first-quarter campaign finance report, means that the candidate has spent at which of the following rates?

A) $1.3 million per week
B) $7,494 per hour
C) $2.08 per second
D) All of the above

14. In 1988, when he was asked by a reporter for the Hartford Courant what he and his father talked about when they weren't discussing politics, what did George W. Bush reply?

A) family
B) Jesus Christ
C) sports
D) pussy

Answer key: The answer to each question is the last choice given.

Sources for above: "Shrub: The Short Happy Political Life of George W. Bush" by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose; "Gore: A Political Life" by Bob Zelnick; "Inventing Al Gore" by Bill Turque; "First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty" by Bill Minutaglio; "Me & Ralph: Is Nader Unsafe for America?" by David Sanford; Pat Buchanan's columns; "George W.'s Spending Spree" by Holly Bailey; the Center for Responsive Politics; "Right from the Beginning" by Pat Buchanan; Gore on NBC's "Meet the Press," 10/13/96; Gore on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition," 10/22/96; Gore on NPR's "Human Events," 10/21/96; and Gore on NBC's "Today" show, 1/25/97.

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