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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 through 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Obama's campaign of "hope" and "change" was heralded as what, according to Mamet in Chapter 6: The Music Man?
(a) The start or World War III.
(b) The new New Deal.
(c) Salvation.
(d) The end of the world.

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

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, a group that knows nothing of the world's history plopped in an isolated area on earth has what one factor that keeps it together?
(a) Shared denial of reality.
(b) The human element.
(c) Shared ability to see the future.
(d) Pride.

4. According to Mamet, the Left ascribes to a sharing of wealth but fails to answer what fundamental question?
(a) How important wealth is.
(b) What currency is the strongest.
(c) Where the wealth came from.
(d) What true wealth is.

5. Who is the protagonist of the novel "Lost Horizon"?
(a) Jack Jenkins.
(b) Hugh Conway.
(c) Albert Yonders.
(d) Ralph Buckingham.

Short Answer Questions

1. The United States Presidential election of 2008 was numbered what quadrennial presidential election?

2. What does Mamet claim the political impulse originated from in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse?

3. In Chapter 8: The Red Sea, Mamet writes that perhaps the parting of the Red Sea did not symbolize the unity of mankind; rather, it may have been intended to do what?

4. What term refers to the weapon equipment of a military vehicle, ship, or aircraft?

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

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