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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. When was Karl Marx born?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1852.

2. What is defined as something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity?
(a) Psychic.
(b) Intuiion.
(c) Incentive.
(d) Subjective.

3. In Chapter 30: Naturally Evolved Institutions, Mamet writes that liberals want to make the world fair by giving what to those with less ability or who are perceived to have been disadvantaged by society?
(a) An advantage.
(b) Gold.
(c) Money.
(d) Free education.

4. Mamet describes a friend of his daughter's who was what in Chapter 35: The Small Refrigerator?
(a) A mormon.
(b) A beauty queen.
(c) A muslim.
(d) An heiress.

5. Mamet claims in Chapter 37: Late Revelations that the Obama campaign slogans suggested that change happens without what?
(a) Effort.
(b) Warning.
(c) Consequences.
(d) Reason.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What executive orders did FDR institute which brought about a variety of programs designed to produce relief (government jobs for the unemployed), recovery (economic growth), and reform?

3. What refers to an economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies?

4. 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?

5. In Chapter 23: Greed, Mamet writes that greed is a sin according to what?

(see the answer key)

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