View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21 through 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was David Mamet born?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1936.

2. What does Mamet define as the practice of indicting and assaulting others for their opinions or for sometimes just stating the truth in Chapter 24: Arrested Development?
(a) Party politics.
(b) Blind politics.
(c) Persecution politics.
(d) Identity politics.

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, what contains the wisdom from which the laws and the traditions of the West originate?
(a) Common sense.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Cosmos.

4. 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) Pride.
(b) Shared denial of reality.
(c) The human element.
(d) Shared ability to see the future.

5. For what field was Milton Friedman a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Economic Sciences.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What radio talk show does Al Sharpton host?

2. 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?

3. Mamet claims in Chapter 21: Rumpelstiltskin that the impact of liberal policies will result in what?

4. Where was Vanessa Redgrave born?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 265 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample