This is the final 25-question test. I would like to thank everyone who participated, especially those 150 or so stalwarts who persevered through what proved to be a particularly brutal winnowing process from the 5,000 or so who took the first quiz on the Introduction. This method of book study obviously isn’t for everyone, but I think it is quite safe to say that if you managed to participate throughout the 12 weeks and pass the final, you probably now know the contents of the text better than anyone except Jonah Goldberg himself.
I’ll be posting my post-study review of the book here later today; it might be interesting to contrast that with my initial review, in which I gave the book an 8/10 rating. But, I doubt those who participated throughout will likely disagree that a close and detailed reading of the book will force one to conclude that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. This is not a criticism nor does it detract in the slightest from the importance of the book, it is merely an observation based on reading through the book three times.
In any event, I hope that those who participated found this to be a worthwhile exercise; as before, my own level of participation in the discussion fell well short of my intentions. Fortunately, there’s seldom a shortage of intelligent regulars here willing to pick up the slack.