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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. Who wrote the book, music and lyrics for the play "The Music Man"?
(a) Nancy Edwards.
(b) Rebecca Matthews.
(c) Meredith Willson.
(d) Erica Reynolds.

2. In Chapter 23: Greed, Mamet writes that greed is a sin according to what?
(a) The U.S. Constitution.
(b) The Bill of Rights.
(c) The U.N. Charter.
(d) The Ten Commandments.

3. Who does Mamet equate liberals with who were expelled from England because their "good acts" were seen as contrived and nauseated everyone?
(a) Jews.
(b) Mormons.
(c) Christians.
(d) Puritans.

4. In Chapter 9: Chicago, Mamet writes that the Left demands that the country continue to feel guilty about what?
(a) Slavery.
(b) World War II.
(c) The space race.
(d) The Great Depression.

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) Free market.
(b) Leashed market.
(c) Wreckless market.
(d) Caged market.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3: Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator, Mamet writes that culture predates what?

2. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet claims that the Socialist vision of society, of taking care of the weak and downtrodden, only serves to do what?

3. When did a non-violent counterrevolution overthrow the Communists in East Germany?

4. When was the novel "Lost Horizon" published?

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?" that buying into the "change" that Obama has promised will cause the descent of the nation into what?

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