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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29 through 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the profession of David Mamet's father?
(a) Dentist.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Attorney.
(d) Professor.

2. Mamet writes in Chapter 29: The Family, that the family is the single-most important unit for transmitting what?
(a) Information about justice.
(b) Cultural information.
(c) Love.
(d) Political views.

3. When was Karl Marx born?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1835.

4. Mamet claims in Chapter 18: The Noble Savage that Conservatives believe in ______ which is not a fantasy and which is a proven success.
(a) Christianity.
(b) The stock market.
(c) The free market.
(d) Democracy.

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?" that a liberal education teaches children to dismantle and disparage what?
(a) A culture in which their family has thrived.
(b) A democratic society.
(c) The Communist revolution.
(d) The true heart of America.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When was Jane Fonda born?

3. When was Vanessa Redgrave born?

4. What does Mamet assert would happen to the occupants of an Iranian vehicle with a bumper sticker with a Christian cross, a star of David and a Muslim crescent and the single word, "Co-Exist"?

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 10: Milton Friedman Explained that the advantage that free enterprise has over the state is that it can what?

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