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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. At what institution did Milton Friedman teach for over three decades?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) Stanford University.
(c) Loyola University.
(d) Harvard University.

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

3. What is the setting of the play "The Music Man"?
(a) Memphis.
(b) River City.
(c) The mountaintop.
(d) Silver City.

4. What is defined as the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation?
(a) Utopia.
(b) Sovereign nation.
(c) Multiculturalism.
(d) Segregation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What aircraft crashed and burned after making it only 300 miles on a trans-Atlantic trip in Chapter 14: R100?

2. What was the name of David Mamet's father?

3. In Chapter 5: Lost Horizon, Mamet writes that there is a stampede of unskilled individuals into what schools because it is an acceptable pursuit and it is not "work" per se?

4. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet claims that the Socialist vision of society, of taking care of the weak and downtrodden, only serves to do what?

5. Who felt that ultimate security would be found in peaceful solutions, according to Mamet in the 2008 Presidential elections?

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