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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) Ralph Buckingham.
(b) Albert Yonders.
(c) Jack Jenkins.
(d) Hugh Conway.

2. 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) Multiculturalism.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Utopia.

3. What name refers to a fictional Utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet featured in the book "Lost Horizon"?
(a) Shangri-La.
(b) Alcatraz.
(c) Atlantis.
(d) Babylon.

4. When was the play "Glengarry Glen Ross" first produced?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1984.

5. When was Sigmund Freud born?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1856.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3: Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator, Mamet writes that culture predates what?

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

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

4. Obama's campaign of "hope" and "change" was heralded as what, according to Mamet in Chapter 6: The Music Man?

5. 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?

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