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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 concept stands on the side of the street sweeper and urges him to ask for more on payday since he gets far less than a physician, according to Mamet in Chapter 32: The Street Sweeper and the Surgeon, or Marxism Examined?
(a) Communism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Liberalism.

2. Along with other celebrities, Jane Fonda supported what occupation in 1969 which was intended to call attention to Native American issues?
(a) The Yosemite Valley occupation.
(b) The Bull Run occupation.
(c) The Mt. Rainer occupation.
(d) The Alcatraz Island occupation.

3. What was the name of David Mamet's father?
(a) James Russel Mamet.
(b) Herbert David Mamet.
(c) Marcus Robert Mamet.
(d) Bernard Morris Mamet.

4. What refers to a series of four coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States?
(a) 4/4 attacks.
(b) Bin Laden attacks.
(c) 9/11 attacks.
(d) 12/17 attacks.

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 10: Milton Friedman Explained that the advantage that free enterprise has over the state is that it can what?
(a) Change prices and values easier.
(b) More easily and effectively correct itself.
(c) It can advertise.
(d) It can skirt regulations easier.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. Who does Mamet equate liberals with who were expelled from England because their "good acts" were seen as contrived and nauseated everyone?

4. What does Mamet claim brought about the Car Czar in the Obama administration in Chapter 20: Cabinet Spiritualism and the Car Czar?

5. In what year did Jane Fonda visit Hanoi, where she was photographed seated on an anti-aircraft battery?

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