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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. 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) Free entry in and out of Israel.
(b) To live in peace with the Jews.
(c) To destroy Israel and claim the land.
(d) A buffer zone along the border.

2. When was Sigmund Freud born?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1824.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1893.

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

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

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?" that buying into the "change" that Obama has promised will cause the descent of the nation into what?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Godlessness.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the play "American Buffalo" first produced?

2. Who espoused the concept that "change" itself was a solution in the 2008 Presidential election, according to David Mamet?

3. When was the novel "Lost Horizon" published?

4. What is defined as the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation?

5. In Chapter 3: Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator, Mamet writes that culture predates what?

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