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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. Where is Alcatraz Island located?
(a) San Francisco Bay.
(b) The Sea of Cortez.
(c) Puget Sound.
(d) Humboldt Bay.

2. In Chapter 9: Chicago, Mamet writes that the Left demands that the country continue to feel guilty about what?
(a) Slavery.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Great Depression.
(d) The space race.

3. When was David Mamet born?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1936.

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

5. 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?
(a) "The Holocaust".
(b) "The Spanish Inquisition".
(c) "The Rape of Jenin".
(d) "The Scourge of Humanity".

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 23: Greed, Mamet claims that in the liberal view, those who take more than their "fair share" should be what?

2. What is defined as an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment?

3. What is defined as existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought?

4. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet claims that the Socialist vision of society, of taking care of the weak and downtrodden, only serves to do what?

5. Karl Marx was quoted for saying that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his" what?

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