1. Mamet writes in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?" that a liberal education teaches children to dismantle and disparage what?
(a) The true heart of America.
(b) A culture in which their family has thrived.
(c) The Communist revolution.
(d) A democratic society.

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

3. What refers to a prohibition or interdiction of anything; exclusion from use or practice?
(a) Tariff.
(b) Taboo.
(c) Embargo.
(d) Bounty.

4. What does Mamet claim the Arabs want in regard to the State of Israel in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?
(a) Free entry in and out of Israel.
(b) To live in peace with the Jews.
(c) A buffer zone along the border.
(d) To destroy Israel and claim the land.

5. What was the profession of David Mamet's father?
(a) Dentist.
(b) Attorney.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9: Chicago, Mamet writes that the culture of society could be summed up in one phrase, "That's how we do things in Chicago," the sub-text of which was what?

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

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

4. Who wrote the novel "Lost Horizon"?

5. When was Sigmund Freud born?

(see the answer key)

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