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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 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?
(a) Mexicans.
(b) Americans.
(c) Israelis.
(d) Canadians.

2. When was Vanessa Redgrave born?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1928.

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

4. What thriving industry did California tax out of the state, according to Mamet in Chapter 14: R100?
(a) Recreation.
(b) Scientific research.
(c) The film industry.
(d) Manufacturing.

5. According to David Mamet, Al Sharpton complains about hair salons in black communities being owned largely by whom?
(a) Canadians.
(b) Asians.
(c) Mexicans.
(d) Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Mamet claim Jane Fonda did in visiting Hanoi and being photographed seated on an anti-aircraft battery?

3. Along with other celebrities, Jane Fonda supported what occupation in 1969 which was intended to call attention to Native American issues?

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, what contains the wisdom from which the laws and the traditions of the West originate?

5. What was the name of David Mamet's father?

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