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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. According to Mamet in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse, justice was seen by the Left as meaning what?
(a) The right to a fair trial.
(b) Community service.
(c) Equality.
(d) An increase in civil rights.

2. Mamet writes in Chapter 31: Breatharian that government did not invent what nor can it oversee it effectively?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) The film industry.
(c) The automobile industry.
(d) Religion.

3. Who headed a radical group that occupied Columbia University and insisted that he was speaking for the student body but most students didn't support him?
(a) Mark Rudd.
(b) Rob Jackson.
(c) Arnold Thompson.
(d) John Stephens.

4. What book is Karl Marx most well-known for writing?
(a) Mein Kampf.
(b) The Communist Manifesto.
(c) The Socialist Manifesto.
(d) The World According to Garp.

5. Who was the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in the 2008 election?
(a) Sarah Palin.
(b) Joe Biden.
(c) John McCain.
(d) Barack Obama.

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 is the setting of the play "The Music Man"?

3. When was Al Sharpton born?

4. What refers to a series of four coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States?

5. What is defined as an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes?

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