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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 through 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mamet, the Left ascribes to a sharing of wealth but fails to answer what fundamental question?
(a) What true wealth is.
(b) How important wealth is.
(c) Where the wealth came from.
(d) What currency is the strongest.

2. What does Mamet claim the political impulse originated from in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse?
(a) Ancient Roman times.
(b) A way to convey one's perspective.
(c) A desire to rule lower classes.
(d) A natural urge to bring order to social relations.

3. Obama's campaign of "hope" and "change" was heralded as what, according to Mamet in Chapter 6: The Music Man?
(a) The start or World War III.
(b) The new New Deal.
(c) Salvation.
(d) The end of the world.

4. The United States Presidential election of 2008 was numbered what quadrennial presidential election?
(a) 68th.
(b) 29th.
(c) 44th.
(d) 56th.

5. When was the NAACP formed?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1895.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book, music and lyrics for the play "The Music Man"?

2. What refers to a prohibition or interdiction of anything; exclusion from use or practice?

3. What does Mamet claim the Arabs want in regard to the State of Israel in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?

4. Who is the con man in the play "The Music Man"?

5. What does Mamet claim the Jews of the State of Israel want in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?

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