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

2. In what year did the stock market crash, leading to the Great Depression?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1931.

3. In Chapter 16: The Victim, Mamet writes that the liberal concern for the "victim" is merely an attempt to do what?
(a) Raise money.
(b) Be martyrs.
(c) Evoke a religious, spiritual feeling.
(d) Attain power and fame.

4. When was Al Sharpton born?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1947.

5. In Chapter 3: Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator, Mamet writes that culture predates what?
(a) Time.
(b) Society.
(c) Humans.
(d) The bible.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In addition to being an aeronautical engineer, Nevil Shute was also what?

3. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet writes that although the Constitution gives the power to declare war to the Congress, who declared war on Japan and then got Congress' approval?

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

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse, justice was seen by the Right as meaning what?

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