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

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?
(a) Revive it's spirit.
(b) Divide and conquer.
(c) Distinguish its diversity.
(d) Show it's vulnerability.

3. Who was the Democratic candidate in the 2008 Presidential election?
(a) Joe Biden.
(b) John McCain.
(c) Barack Obama.
(d) Sarah Palin.

4. Who espoused the concept that "change" itself was a solution in the 2008 Presidential election, according to David Mamet?
(a) Libertarians
(b) Democrats.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Communists.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the Republican candidate for President in the 2008 election?

3. What is the setting of the play Glengarry Glen Ross?

4. What name refers to a fictional Utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet featured in the book "Lost Horizon"?

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

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