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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 through 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, the denial of reality is one of the reasons the Left embraces what?
(a) Liberalism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Conservatism.
(d) Communism.

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 9: Chicago, there was something alluring about what infamous element of Chicago in his childhood?
(a) The Mafia.
(b) The port authority.
(c) Dirty politics.
(d) The garbage hauling industry.

5. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet writes that although the Constitution gives the power to declare war to the Congress, who declared war on Japan and then got Congress' approval?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3: Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator, Mamet writes that the pursuit of ____________________________ is a waste of time and money in that what can be taken from the experience is not marketable and has no relevance to the real work force?

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

3. In addition to being an aeronautical engineer, Nevil Shute was also what?

4. In Chapter 14: R100, Mamet claims that the reason the American car industry failed was what?

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?" that buying into the "change" that Obama has promised will cause the descent of the nation into what?

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