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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, the Left ascribes to a sharing of wealth but fails to answer what fundamental question?
(a) What currency is the strongest.
(b) Where the wealth came from.
(c) What true wealth is.
(d) How important wealth is.
2. What name refers to a fictional Utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet featured in the book "Lost Horizon"?
(a) Atlantis.
(b) Alcatraz.
(c) Shangri-La.
(d) Babylon.
3. 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) The Torah.
(d) Common sense.
4. When was the play "American Buffalo" first produced?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1975.
5. Who wrote the book, music and lyrics for the play "The Music Man"?
(a) Meredith Willson.
(b) Nancy Edwards.
(c) Erica Reynolds.
(d) Rebecca Matthews.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. In Chapter 3: Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator, Mamet writes that the pursuit of ____________________________ is a waste of time and money in that what can be taken from the experience is not marketable and has no relevance to the real work force?
4. In Chapter 5: Lost Horizon, Mamet writes that there is a stampede of unskilled individuals into what schools because it is an acceptable pursuit and it is not "work" per se?
5. What is defined as the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation?
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