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

2. Mamet writes in Chapter 24: Arrested Development that while teaching a drama course, Mamet encountered students who didn't want the villain of a story to be what?
(a) An Arab.
(b) An American.
(c) An Australian.
(d) A Jew.

3. In 1969, Al Sharpton was appointed by whom as youth director of Operation Breadbasket, a group that focused on the promotion of new and better jobs for African-Americans?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Jesse Jackson.
(d) Richard Nixon.

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

5. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet claims that to Liberals, the government has the responsibility of protecting anyone who claims to be what?
(a) Uneducated.
(b) Powerless.
(c) Mentally unstable.
(d) Poor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. It is Mamet's opinion in Chapter 22: My Father, Al Sharpton, and the Designated Criminal that who sends the message everyday that America has surrendered and is ready to be taken over by our enemies?

3. In Chapter 23: Greed, Mamet writes that greed is a sin according to what?

4. Mamet claims in Chapter 21: Rumpelstiltskin that the Obama administration refuses to accept the fact that the West is threatened by what?

5. Maxwell Street refers to a famous street in what city?

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