Quick Quiz: Bush Lit

1) How did former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill describe George W. Bush's behavior at Cabinet meetings in Ron Suskind's book The Price of Loyalty?

"[He was] constantly interrupting the business at hand by making these supposedly funny faces, which was kind of redundant since he so effortlessly resembles a bat-eared chimp without doing any mugging."

"[He was] like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people."

"His ignorance was exceeded only by his arrogance. I often sat there secretly hoping that someone would lunge across the table and pop him right in the nose."

2) According to Robert Draper's book Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, what was Bush unable to remember?

How and why the Iraqi army was disbanded despite the intended policy to keep it intact.

His high score in his favorite video game.

Anything that happened between December 1984 and July 1986.

3) True or false? According to former counterterrorism advisor Richard Clarke's book Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, when his team presented George W. Bush with a report that found no connection between Iraq and al Qaeda, Bush threw a hissy fit.

True. Bush became so furious that spittle flew from his lips as he snarled, "I don't fucking believe you. Get the fuck out of here and come back tomorrow with the right fucking answer."

False. Clarke's team actually produced two reports with this finding, but delivered neither to Bush for fear that receiving information that contradicted what he wanted to believe would cause him to throw a spittle-spraying, obscenity-laden hissy fit.

4) What scene did New York Times reporter Frank Bruni describe at the start of the first chapter of his book Ambling Into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush?

Thirteen-year-old George W. Bush at a Houston country club, being sent to sit in the car by his mother after he got pissed off at his failure to tee off well and started screaming, "Fuck this!"

Graduate student George W. Bush sitting in the back of a Harvard Business School classroom, slouching in his National Guard bomber jacket while chewing gum and blowing bubbles, dipping snuff, and spitting tobacco juice into a Styrofoam cup.

Texas governor George W. Bush at a memorial service for seven people shot to death in a Fort Worth church, repeatedly turning around in his seat to make funny faces at the reporters behind him.