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

2. What is defined as the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation?
(a) Utopia.
(b) Sovereign nation.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Multiculturalism.

3. In Chapter 5: Lost Horizon, Mamet writes that there is a stampede of unskilled individuals into what schools because it is an acceptable pursuit and it is not "work" per se?
(a) Technical colleges.
(b) Ivy league.
(c) Business schools.
(d) Film schools.

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, the denial of reality is one of the reasons the Left embraces what?
(a) Communism.
(b) Liberalism.
(c) Conservatism.
(d) Socialism.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, what contains the wisdom from which the laws and the traditions of the West originate?

3. What economist makes the observation that aid to a developing country actually impedes that development in Chapter 6: The Music Man?

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

5. In Chapter 8: The Red Sea, Mamet writes that perhaps the parting of the Red Sea did not symbolize the unity of mankind; rather, it may have been intended to do what?

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