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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. According to Mamet, who supported the concepts of fiscal conservatism, lower taxes and a strong military in the 2008 Presidential election?
(a) Democrats.
(b) Republicans.
(c) Communists.
(d) Libertarians.

2. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, what contains the wisdom from which the laws and the traditions of the West originate?
(a) The Cosmos.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Common sense.
(d) The Torah.

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

4. When was the play "American Buffalo" first produced?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1962.

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. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, the denial of reality is one of the reasons the Left embraces what?

2. Who was the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in the 2008 election?

3. What is the setting of the play "The Music Man"?

4. 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?

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

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