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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29 through 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mamet claim Jane Fonda did in visiting Hanoi and being photographed seated on an anti-aircraft battery?
(a) Impressed the prsident.
(b) Committed treason.
(c) Enraged the Japanese.
(d) Ended the war.

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

3. In Chapter 26: Feminism, Mamet claims that the weakening of what will eventually destroy the family which is essential for a successful society?
(a) Monogamy.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Conservatism.
(d) Feminism.

4. What is a way the government generates revenues and which are based on proportions of earnings which is considered fair, according to Mamet?
(a) Charities.
(b) Embargoes.
(c) Laws.
(d) Taxes.

5. Mamet claims in Chapter 21: Rumpelstiltskin that the impact of liberal policies will result in what?
(a) The destruction of our culture.
(b) The first woman president.
(c) Americans being slaves to the Chinese.
(d) A better economy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 16: The Victim, Mamet writes that when six houses were destroyed in an incursion into Palestinian territory by the Israelis, it was depicted in Western media as what?

2. According to Mamet, a democracy is created with the intention of ensuring that no one suffers from the state which can only be accomplished by doing what?

3. What refers to a prohibition or interdiction of anything; exclusion from use or practice?

4. What actor was Jane Fonda's father?

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

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