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1.	Homer has become obsessed with Reading Digest magazine. What prominent author does he quote from Quotable Notables?
		Leo Tolstoy
		Charles Dickens
		J.D. Salinger
		James Joyce

2.	What is the sound that all Arctic explorers dread?
		the relentless grinding of the ice floes
		the puff of the narwhal’s blowhole
		the pitiless bark of the sea-lion
		the silent shuffling of the polar bear

3.	What cooking idea does Marge get from Reading Digest?
		honey-glazed Spam
		meatloaf men
		deep-fried baked bean fingers
		Kansas City-style hotdogs

4.	Lisa is entering a patriotic essay contest. If he were alive today, who would say “think of a better opening?”
		George Washington
		Thomas Paine
		Thomas Jefferson
		Benjamin Franklin

5.	The Simpsons are going to Washington! What public institution does Homer boo?
		the IRS
		Ford’s Theatre
		the National Air and Space Museum
		the Supreme Court

6.	The Simpsons go on a tour of the White House, which features a plaque commemorating the spot where Richard Nixon:
		masterminded the American victory in Vietnam
		shook hands with Elvis Presley
		bowled back-to-back 300 games
		was pardoned by Gerald Ford

7.	Lisa meets her Congressional representative Bob Arnold. How many women senators are there in Congress?
		zero
		one
		two
		three

8.	At whose monument does Lisa come across Congressman Arnold taking a bribe?
		May Archer Brownell
		Winifred Beecher Howe
		Harriet Sloper Newland
		Elizabeth Ransom Welland

9.	Of the following, who is not one of the judges at the Reading Digest essay contest?
		perennial third-party candidate Wilson DeFarge
		skincare specialist Rowena
		founding member of Styx, Dennis De Young
		wealthy gadabout Chilton Gaines

10.	Lisa has torn up her essay “The Roots of Democracy”. What is the title of her new essay?
		Why Our Country Sucks
		Greedy Hogs Fill Their Snouts at the Trough
		Washington: City of Scum
		Cesspool on the Potomac

11.	An FBI sting operation catches Congressman Arnold accepting a bribe to allow:
		open pit mining the Grand Canyon
		draining the Everglades for gold
		drilling for oil in Mt Rushmore
		the sale of Alaska back to Russia

12.	The entertainment at the Reading Digest contest is a singing, piano-playing satirist. Of the following ditties, which does he not play?
		the Deficit Rag
		the Nuclear Treaty Polka
		the Trading Gap Shuffle
		Let Me Tell You about Lisa S.