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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. 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) Film schools.
(c) Ivy league.
(d) Business schools.

2. 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) Godlessness.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Anarchy.

3. Who wrote the book, music and lyrics for the play "The Music Man"?
(a) Nancy Edwards.
(b) Meredith Willson.
(c) Erica Reynolds.
(d) Rebecca Matthews.

4. Mamet has mused that he'd rather deal with a crooked cop than what in Chapter 9: Chicago?
(a) A bureaucrat.
(b) The mafia.
(c) A baseball player.
(d) The mayor.

5. What is the setting of the play "The Music Man"?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Silver City.
(c) The mountaintop.
(d) River City.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what field was Milton Friedman a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize?

2. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, a group that knows nothing of the world's history plopped in an isolated area on earth has what one factor that keeps it together?

3. What name refers to a fictional Utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet featured in the book "Lost Horizon"?

4. When was the play "Glengarry Glen Ross" first produced?

5. In Chapter 9: Chicago, Mamet writes that the Left demands that the country continue to feel guilty about what?

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