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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. What term refers to the weapon equipment of a military vehicle, ship, or aircraft?
(a) Artillery.
(b) Apparatus of death.
(c) Canon.
(d) Armament.

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

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

4. What is defined as the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation?
(a) Sovereign nation.
(b) Utopia.
(c) Multiculturalism.
(d) Segregation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who espoused the concept that "change" itself was a solution in the 2008 Presidential election, according to David Mamet?

2. Who is the protagonist of the novel "Lost Horizon"?

3. When was the play "Glengarry Glen Ross" first produced?

4. 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?

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, what contains the wisdom from which the laws and the traditions of the West originate?

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