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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) Where the wealth came from.
(b) What currency is the strongest.
(c) How important wealth is.
(d) What true wealth is.

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

3. 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?
(a) The human element.
(b) Pride.
(c) Shared ability to see the future.
(d) Shared denial of reality.

4. In Chapter 4: Alcatraz, Mamet writes that what promotes transition and advancement?
(a) Society.
(b) The Christian church.
(c) The Republican party.
(d) The Democratic party.

5. Who wrote the novel "Lost Horizon"?
(a) James Hilton.
(b) Chadwick Roberts.
(c) Randall Morris.
(d) Edmund King.

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. What economist makes the observation that aid to a developing country actually impedes that development in Chapter 6: The Music Man?

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

4. Where is Alcatraz Island located?

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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