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

2. Who wrote the book, music and lyrics for the play "The Music Man"?
(a) Rebecca Matthews.
(b) Nancy Edwards.
(c) Erica Reynolds.
(d) Meredith Willson.

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

4. According to Mamet, the Left ascribes to a sharing of wealth but fails to answer what fundamental question?
(a) What true wealth is.
(b) How important wealth is.
(c) Where the wealth came from.
(d) What currency is the strongest.

5. Where is Alcatraz Island located?
(a) Puget Sound.
(b) Humboldt Bay.
(c) The Sea of Cortez.
(d) San Francisco Bay.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Sigmund Freud born?

2. When was the novel "Lost Horizon" published?

3. 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?

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

5. Who was the Democratic candidate in the 2008 Presidential election?

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