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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 through 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 10: Milton Friedman Explained, Mamet writes that as opposed to asking, "What are the decisions?" Milton Friedman posed what question?
(a) "Who needs decisions".
(b) "Who makes decisions".
(c) "Can't I make my own decisions".
(d) "Decisions for who".

2. When was the play "Glengarry Glen Ross" first produced?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1989.

3. In Chapter 3: Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator, Mamet writes that culture predates what?
(a) Humans.
(b) The bible.
(c) Time.
(d) Society.

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

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, a group that knows nothing of the world's history plopped in an isolated area on earth has what one factor that keeps it together?
(a) The human element.
(b) Pride.
(c) Shared ability to see the future.
(d) Shared denial of reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet, who supported the concepts of fiscal conservatism, lower taxes and a strong military in the 2008 Presidential election?

2. What actor was Jane Fonda'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. What refers to a prohibition or interdiction of anything; exclusion from use or practice?

5. Who is the protagonist of the novel "Lost Horizon"?

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