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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 novel "Lost Horizon"?
(a) Edmund King.
(b) Randall Morris.
(c) James Hilton.
(d) Chadwick Roberts.

2. What location does Mamet describe as similar to the Catskills and was a playground for adult Jews who were restricted from other hotels and resorts?
(a) Oakerly Lake.
(b) The Hamptons.
(c) Martha's Vineyard.
(d) Oakton Manor.

3. Mamet writes in Chapter 24: Arrested Development that while teaching a drama course, Mamet encountered students who didn't want the villain of a story to be what?
(a) An Australian.
(b) An American.
(c) A Jew.
(d) An Arab.

4. What does Mamet assert would happen to the occupants of an Iranian vehicle with a bumper sticker with a Christian cross, a star of David and a Muslim crescent and the single word, "Co-Exist"?
(a) They would be beheaded.
(b) They would be forced to become muslims.
(c) Their hands would be cut off.
(d) They would be asked to leave.

5. What aircraft crashed and burned after making it only 300 miles on a trans-Atlantic trip in Chapter 14: R100?
(a) The B732.
(b) The R101.
(c) The P839.
(d) The M441.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Milton Friedman born?

2. Mamet claims in Chapter 21: Rumpelstiltskin that the Obama administration refuses to accept the fact that the West is threatened by what?

3. What does Mamet claim the political impulse originated from in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse?

4. In what year did the stock market crash, leading to the Great Depression?

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

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