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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. According to Mamet in Chapter 9: Chicago, there was something alluring about what infamous element of Chicago in his childhood?
(a) The port authority.
(b) The Mafia.
(c) Dirty politics.
(d) The garbage hauling industry.

2. Mamet has mused that he'd rather deal with a crooked cop than what in Chapter 9: Chicago?
(a) A bureaucrat.
(b) The mafia.
(c) The mayor.
(d) A baseball player.

3. In Chapter 3: Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator, Mamet writes that culture predates what?
(a) Society.
(b) Humans.
(c) Time.
(d) The bible.

4. 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?
(a) Jesse Jackson.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Richard Nixon.

5. When was the NAACP formed?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1888.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 16: The Victim, Mamet writes that the liberal concern for the "victim" is merely an attempt to do what?

2. When was Sigmund Freud born?

3. Where was Vanessa Redgrave born?

4. Who felt that ultimate security would be found in peaceful solutions, according to Mamet in the 2008 Presidential elections?

5. What aircraft crashed and burned after making it only 300 miles on a trans-Atlantic trip in Chapter 14: R100?

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