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

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?
(a) Shared ability to see the future.
(b) Shared denial of reality.
(c) Pride.
(d) The human element.

3. When was the play "American Buffalo" first produced?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1962.

4. Who is the con man in the play "The Music Man"?
(a) Donald Rice.
(b) Michael Zeers.
(c) John Robbins.
(d) Harold Hill.

5. Who wrote the novel "Lost Horizon"?
(a) Randall Morris.
(b) Chadwick Roberts.
(c) Edmund King.
(d) James Hilton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet writes in Chapter 10: Milton Friedman Explained that the advantage that free enterprise has over the state is that it can what?

2. What television game show is referenced in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 9: Chicago, there was something alluring about what infamous element of Chicago in his childhood?

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse, justice was seen by the Left as meaning what?

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

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