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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. When was Sarah Palin elected Governor of Alaska?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1997.
(d) 2006.

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

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

4. Mamet writes that marriage is a naturally evolved response to the primordial urge for what?
(a) Finance.
(b) Religion.
(c) Monogamy.
(d) Biological urges.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Along with other celebrities, Jane Fonda supported what occupation in 1969 which was intended to call attention to Native American issues?

2. To what office was Sarah Palin elected in 1992?

3. What refers to a prohibition or interdiction of anything; exclusion from use or practice?

4. When was Al Sharpton born?

5. Mamet describes being criticized for being a misogynist by a female critic for what play in Chapter 26: Feminism?

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