View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 33 through 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What location does Mamet describe as similar to the Catskills and was a playground for adult Jews who were restricted from other hotels and resorts?
(a) Oakton Manor.
(b) Oakerly Lake.
(c) The Hamptons.
(d) Martha's Vineyard.

2. What does Mamet define as the practice of indicting and assaulting others for their opinions or for sometimes just stating the truth in Chapter 24: Arrested Development?
(a) Blind politics.
(b) Identity politics.
(c) Party politics.
(d) Persecution politics.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Dred Scott v. Sandford was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants, whether or not they were slaves) could never be what?

2. Mamet writes that marriage is a naturally evolved response to the primordial urge for what?

3. What concept stands on the side of the street sweeper and urges him to ask for more on payday since he gets far less than a physician, according to Mamet in Chapter 32: The Street Sweeper and the Surgeon, or Marxism Examined?

4. Mamet claims in Chapter 18: The Noble Savage that Conservatives believe in ______ which is not a fantasy and which is a proven success.

5. At what institution did Milton Friedman teach for over three decades?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 323 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample