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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. What does Mamet claim the political impulse originated from in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse?
(a) Ancient Roman times.
(b) A desire to rule lower classes.
(c) A natural urge to bring order to social relations.
(d) A way to convey one's perspective.

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

3. In what year did the government award Nevil Shute and a governmental department contracts to make rigid aircraft called zeppelins?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1918.

4. When was the NAACP formed?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1873.

5. 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?
(a) Business schools.
(b) Ivy league.
(c) Film schools.
(d) Technical colleges.

Short Answer Questions

1. What thriving industry did California tax out of the state, according to Mamet in Chapter 14: R100?

2. According to Mamet, the Left ascribes to a sharing of wealth but fails to answer what fundamental question?

3. When was the play "Glengarry Glen Ross" first produced?

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

5. 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?

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