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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name refers to a fictional Utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet featured in the book "Lost Horizon"?
(a) Babylon.
(b) Shangri-La.
(c) Alcatraz.
(d) Atlantis.

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

3. Mamet writes in Chapter 29: The Family, that the family is the single-most important unit for transmitting what?
(a) Love.
(b) Political views.
(c) Cultural information.
(d) Information about justice.

4. When did the term Homeland Security first arise, following a reorganization of many U.S. government agencies?
(a) 2003.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1998.

5. What actor was Jane Fonda's father?
(a) Mitchell Fonda.
(b) James Fonda.
(c) Henry Fonda.
(d) Robert Fonda.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Democratic candidate in the 2008 Presidential election?

2. In Chapter 16: The Victim, Mamet writes that when six houses were destroyed in an incursion into Palestinian territory by the Israelis, it was depicted in Western media as what?

3. Mamet writes in Chapter 24: Arrested Development that while teaching a drama course, Mamet encountered students who didn't want the villain of a story to be what?

4. What thriving industry did California tax out of the state, according to Mamet in Chapter 14: R100?

5. What was the profession of David Mamet's father?

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