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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 novel "Lost Horizon" published?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1904.

2. When was David Mamet born?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1947.

3. Mamet writes in Chapter 18: The Noble Savage that the Left worships both the tribe and what?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Big government.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Small government.

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

5. What refers to an economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies?
(a) Leashed market.
(b) Wreckless market.
(c) Caged market.
(d) Free market.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What name refers to a fictional Utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet featured in the book "Lost Horizon"?

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

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