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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. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet claims that to Liberals, the government has the responsibility of protecting anyone who claims to be what?
(a) Powerless.
(b) Mentally unstable.
(c) Uneducated.
(d) Poor.

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

3. What term refers to the weapon equipment of a military vehicle, ship, or aircraft?
(a) Armament.
(b) Apparatus of death.
(c) Canon.
(d) Artillery.

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, what contains the wisdom from which the laws and the traditions of the West originate?
(a) Common sense.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Cosmos.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of the play "The Music Man"?

2. Who wrote the book, music and lyrics for the play "The Music Man"?

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

4. In Chapter 4: Alcatraz, Mamet writes that what promotes transition and advancement?

5. Maxwell Street refers to a famous street in what city?

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