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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 37 through 39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 10: Milton Friedman Explained, Mamet writes that as opposed to asking, "What are the decisions?" Milton Friedman posed what question?
(a) "Decisions for who".
(b) "Can't I make my own decisions".
(c) "Who needs decisions".
(d) "Who makes decisions".

2. Where was Vanessa Redgrave born?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) London, England.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Rome, Italy.

3. What is defined as a group pattern of habitual activity usually transmitted from one generation to another?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Society.
(d) Custom.

4. Mamet claims in Chapter 38: Who Does One Think He Is? that the difference between fairness and equality is that the latter can be given what?
(a) A value.
(b) To future generations.
(c) A standard.
(d) Laws.

5. What does Mamet claim brought about the Car Czar in the Obama administration in Chapter 20: Cabinet Spiritualism and the Car Czar?
(a) "Magic thinking".
(b) "Wishful thinking".
(c) "Arrogant thinking".
(d) "Communist thinking".

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mamet describes a friend of his daughter's who was what in Chapter 35: The Small Refrigerator?

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse, justice was seen by the Left as meaning what?

4. According to David Mamet, Al Sharpton complains about hair salons in black communities being owned largely by whom?

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 33: Self-Evident Truth that American Democracy is based on the belief that what?

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