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

2. Along with other celebrities, Jane Fonda supported what occupation in 1969 which was intended to call attention to Native American issues?
(a) The Alcatraz Island occupation.
(b) The Bull Run occupation.
(c) The Mt. Rainer occupation.
(d) The Yosemite Valley occupation.

3. In Chapter 17: Puritans, Mamet writes that liberals apply what to all people and causes?
(a) Educational equivalency.
(b) Monetary equivalency.
(c) Racial equivalency.
(d) Moral equivalency.

4. What name refers to a fictional Utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet featured in the book "Lost Horizon"?
(a) Babylon.
(b) Alcatraz.
(c) Shangri-La.
(d) Atlantis.

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 10: Milton Friedman Explained that the advantage that free enterprise has over the state is that it can what?
(a) Change prices and values easier.
(b) More easily and effectively correct itself.
(c) It can advertise.
(d) It can skirt regulations easier.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 16: The Victim, Mamet writes that the liberal concern for the "victim" is merely an attempt to do what?

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

3. 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?

4. Mamet writes in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?" that a liberal education teaches children to dismantle and disparage what?

5. When was David Mamet born?

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