Tea Party
American History Pop Quiz
by Roz Warren
and Janet Golden
(this story
first appeared on the
Womens Voices For Change Website)
Inspired by
Sarah Palin’s recent rewrite of American
history, in which she explained that the purpose
of Paul Revere’s famous ride was to
“warn the British… that they
weren’t going to be taking away our arms,”
we present the Tea Party American Revisionist
History Pop Quiz. Put on your Tea Party hat and
see if you can complete these famous historical
quotes:
“We hold
these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
_____
a. hand guns
b. lower taxes
c. a smaller government
“Ask not
what your country can do for you, ask _______
a. for lots of guns
b. for lower taxes
c. for a smaller government
‘Give me
liberty or give me ________
a. an Uzi.
b. lower taxes
c. a smaller government
“Don’t
fire until you see ________
a. a tax cut
b. a smaller government
c. more handguns
The only thing
we have to fear is ______
a. gun control
b. big government
c. higher taxes
“Speak
softly and carry ____
a. an M-16.
b. a sign protesting big government
c. a whopping tax refund
“A house
divided against itself _____
a. needs a spiffy new arsenal
b. needs a tax break
c. needs a smaller government
“I have a
dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be judged by
the color of their skin, but by ____________
a. the caliber of their firearms
b. the size of their tax refund
c. how little their government does for them
“Mr.
Gorbachev, tear down this _____
a. tax code
b. federal system
c. gun control law
“Go west,
young man, and
a) escape big government
b) fight for lower taxes
c) take along plenty of guns
“I only
regret that I have but one life to give for
a) the right to bear arms
b) lower taxes
c) a smaller government
“Oh say
does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave,
o’re the land of the free, and the home of
the:
a) legal assault rifle
b) untaxed corporation
c) downsized federal government
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