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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 the Arabs want in regard to the State of Israel in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?
(a) To live in peace with the Jews.
(b) Free entry in and out of Israel.
(c) A buffer zone along the border.
(d) To destroy Israel and claim the land.

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

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 9: Chicago, there was something alluring about what infamous element of Chicago in his childhood?
(a) The port authority.
(b) The Mafia.
(c) The garbage hauling industry.
(d) Dirty politics.

4. Mamet claims in Chapter 21: Rumpelstiltskin that the Obama administration refuses to accept the fact that the West is threatened by what?
(a) Christian Evangelicism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Islamic Fascism.
(d) Nazism.

5. Where was Al Sharpton born?
(a) Detroit, Michigan.
(b) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
(c) Brooklyn, New York.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 16: The Victim, Mamet writes that the liberal concern for the "victim" is merely an attempt to do what?

2. 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?

3. In Chapter 23: Greed, Mamet claims that in the liberal view, those who take more than their "fair share" should be what?

4. When was Al Sharpton born?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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