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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. What is defined as a suspicion of, hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage?
(a) Anti Israelism.
(b) Anti Judaism.
(c) Anti Palestinianism.
(d) Anti Semitism.

2. What economist makes the observation that aid to a developing country actually impedes that development in Chapter 6: The Music Man?
(a) Dambisa Moyo.
(b) Paul Krugman.
(c) Wilhelm Röpke.
(d) Carl Menger.

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

4. When was Nevil Shute born?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1906.

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?" that a liberal education teaches children to dismantle and disparage what?
(a) The true heart of America.
(b) The Communist revolution.
(c) A democratic society.
(d) A culture in which their family has thrived.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet writes that although the Constitution gives the power to declare war to the Congress, who declared war on Japan and then got Congress' approval?

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

5. Mamet claims in Chapter 18: The Noble Savage that Conservatives believe in ______ which is not a fantasy and which is a proven success.

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