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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. What is defined as existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought?
(a) Psychic.
(b) Incentive.
(c) Intuiion.
(d) Subjective.

2. Who was an American politician and promotion of liberal causes in the Democratic Party and served as the 31st Governor of Illinois?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) Rod Blagojevich.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Adlai Stevenson II.

3. The Ashkenazi Jews were from where?
(a) Milwaukee.
(b) Southern France.
(c) Eastern Europe.
(d) Canada.

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

5. What concept stands on the side of the street sweeper and urges him to ask for more on payday since he gets far less than a physician, according to Mamet in Chapter 32: The Street Sweeper and the Surgeon, or Marxism Examined?
(a) Communism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Liberalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Mamet writes in Chapter 29: The Family, that the family is the single-most important unit for transmitting what?

3. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet writes that although the Constitution gives the power to declare war to the Congress, who declared war on Japan and then got Congress' approval?

4. What does Mamet define as when government vows to lead the people to the Promised Land in Chapter 33: Self-Evident Truth?

5. When was Sigmund Freud born?

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