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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 refers to a series of four coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States?
(a) 12/17 attacks.
(b) 4/4 attacks.
(c) 9/11 attacks.
(d) Bin Laden attacks.

2. What does Mamet claim the Arabs want in regard to the State of Israel in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?
(a) To destroy Israel and claim the land.
(b) A buffer zone along the border.
(c) To live in peace with the Jews.
(d) Free entry in and out of Israel.

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

4. Who was the Democratic candidate in the 2008 Presidential election?
(a) Barack Obama.
(b) John McCain.
(c) Joe Biden.
(d) Sarah Palin.

5. What is the setting of the play "The Music Man"?
(a) The mountaintop.
(b) River City.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Silver City.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. At what institution did Milton Friedman teach for over three decades?

4. When did the term Homeland Security first arise, following a reorganization of many U.S. government agencies?

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, the denial of reality is one of the reasons the Left embraces what?

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