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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21 through 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet writes that although the Constitution gives the power to declare war to the Congress, who declared war on Japan and then got Congress' approval?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

2. Who is the protagonist of the novel "Lost Horizon"?
(a) Jack Jenkins.
(b) Hugh Conway.
(c) Albert Yonders.
(d) Ralph Buckingham.

3. Obama's campaign of "hope" and "change" was heralded as what, according to Mamet in Chapter 6: The Music Man?
(a) The start or World War III.
(b) The new New Deal.
(c) Salvation.
(d) The end of the world.

4. In Chapter 9: Chicago, Mamet writes that the culture of society could be summed up in one phrase, "That's how we do things in Chicago," the sub-text of which was what?
(a) We are better than you.
(b) Ignorance is bliss.
(c) Not to question established conventions.
(d) You are doing things wrong.

5. When was Jane Fonda born?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1937.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name refers to a fictional Utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet featured in the book "Lost Horizon"?

2. In Chapter 15: The Intelligent Person's Guide to Socialism and Anti-Semitism, Mamet writes that it is difficult to understand why aid is given to Palestine when some of the money is funneled to terrorists whose main goal is to kill whom?

3. In Chapter 5: Lost Horizon, Mamet writes that there is a stampede of unskilled individuals into what schools because it is an acceptable pursuit and it is not "work" per se?

4. In Chapter 9: Chicago, Mamet writes that the Left demands that the country continue to feel guilty about what?

5. Mamet has mused that he'd rather deal with a crooked cop than what in Chapter 9: Chicago?

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