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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. What does Mamet claim Jane Fonda did in visiting Hanoi and being photographed seated on an anti-aircraft battery?
(a) Committed treason.
(b) Impressed the prsident.
(c) Ended the war.
(d) Enraged the Japanese.

2. When did a non-violent counterrevolution overthrow the Communists in East Germany?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1984.

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

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

5. 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) 12/17 attacks.
(d) 9/11 attacks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What television game show is referenced in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?

3. What economist makes the observation that aid to a developing country actually impedes that development in Chapter 6: The Music Man?

4. Where was Al Sharpton born?

5. According to Mamet, the United Nations destroyed the image of America by identifying the nation as what?

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