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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25 through 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is defined as an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment?
(a) Complacency.
(b) Competitiveness.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Ambition.

2. What is the setting of the play Glengarry Glen Ross?
(a) New York.
(b) Portland.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Denver.

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

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

5. Mamet claims in Chapter 26: Feminism, that the left's dislike of Sarah Palin is in large part because she is what?
(a) Smart.
(b) A "worker".
(c) Pretty.
(d) Alaskan.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the government award Nevil Shute and a governmental department contracts to make rigid aircraft called zeppelins?

2. When was Vanessa Redgrave born?

3. In 1969, Al Sharpton was appointed by whom as youth director of Operation Breadbasket, a group that focused on the promotion of new and better jobs for African-Americans?

4. Who is the con man in the play "The Music Man"?

5. What refers to a series of four coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States?

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