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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. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, a group that knows nothing of the world's history plopped in an isolated area on earth has what one factor that keeps it together?
(a) Shared ability to see the future.
(b) Shared denial of reality.
(c) Pride.
(d) The human element.

2. When was the State of Israel established?
(a) 1725.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1293.

3. In Chapter 16: The Victim, Mamet writes that when six houses were destroyed in an incursion into Palestinian territory by the Israelis, it was depicted in Western media as what?
(a) "The Spanish Inquisition".
(b) "The Holocaust".
(c) "The Scourge of Humanity".
(d) "The Rape of Jenin".

4. When did the term Homeland Security first arise, following a reorganization of many U.S. government agencies?
(a) 1988.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1998.

5. In Chapter 10: Milton Friedman Explained, Mamet writes that as opposed to asking, "What are the decisions?" Milton Friedman posed what question?
(a) "Decisions for who".
(b) "Who makes decisions".
(c) "Who needs decisions".
(d) "Can't I make my own decisions".

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the profession of David Mamet's father?

2. According to David Mamet, Al Sharpton complains about hair salons in black communities being owned largely by whom?

3. What refers to an economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies?

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

5. In Chapter 9: Chicago, Mamet writes that the Left demands that the country continue to feel guilty about what?

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