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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. In 1969, Al Sharpton was appointed by whom as youth director of Operation Breadbasket, a group that focused on the promotion of new and better jobs for African-Americans?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Jesse Jackson.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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

3. Mamet claims in Chapter 31: Breatharian, that government intervention serves to do what?
(a) Advance the understandings of man.
(b) Retard the advancement of man.
(c) Complicate simple tasks.
(d) Create regulations and taxes.

4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the United States in what year?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1940.

5. What does Mamet claim the Jews of the State of Israel want in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?
(a) To take over more land.
(b) To protect their borders and live in peace.
(c) To provoke the Palestinians.
(d) To rely on the might of the U.S.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control?

2. Mamet writes in Chapter 31: Breatharian that government did not invent what nor can it oversee it effectively?

3. When was Jane Fonda born?

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

5. Mamet claims in Chapter 35: The Small Refrigerator, that the biggest fault of his generation is what?

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