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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 33 through 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name refers to a fictional Utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet featured in the book "Lost Horizon"?
(a) Shangri-La.
(b) Alcatraz.
(c) Babylon.
(d) Atlantis.

2. In Chapter 36: Bumper Stickers, Mamet claims that old bumper stickers like "War Is Not the Answer," gave the false impression that there is only a choice between death and what?
(a) Life.
(b) Struggle.
(c) Surrender.
(d) Hope.

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 29: The Family, liberal universities mislead students by teaching them that society is susceptible to what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Reason.
(d) Love.

4. In what year did Jane Fonda visit Hanoi, where she was photographed seated on an anti-aircraft battery?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1966.

5. The United States Presidential election of 2008 was numbered what quadrennial presidential election?
(a) 68th.
(b) 56th.
(c) 29th.
(d) 44th.

Short Answer Questions

1. The main effects of the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford in history were the rise of the Republican Party over what party?

2. Mamet claims in Chapter 31: Breatharian, that government intervention serves to do what?

3. What is defined as a group pattern of habitual activity usually transmitted from one generation to another?

4. According to Mamet, a democracy is created with the intention of ensuring that no one suffers from the state which can only be accomplished by doing what?

5. Karl Marx was quoted for saying that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his" what?

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