Multiple Choice Quiz

Brian Zick

Who is author Stephen Z. Starr describing? "… one side develops a national inferiority complex, begins to blame all its shortcomings on the other side, enforces a rigid conformity on its own people, and tries to make up for its own sins of omission and commission by name-calling, by nursing an exaggerated pride and sensitiveness, and by cultivating a reckless aggressiveness as a substitute for reason." a) Congressional Republicans b) the government of North Korea's Kim Jong-il c) Adolf Hitler's Third Reich d) "The South" (pre-Civil War) e) Jim Brady, Deborah Howell, John Harris f) Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Feith g) Cheney, Libby, and Addington h) the Democratic Leadership Council i) the warblogger 101st Fighting Keyboarders j) Carol Darr k) Orwell's Big Brother For the answer, read Digby. bonus question: When did Starr provide this description? a) 1995 b) 2005 c) 1965 d) 2000 e) 1958

The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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