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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. Who does Mamet equate liberals with who were expelled from England because their "good acts" were seen as contrived and nauseated everyone?
(a) Mormons.
(b) Puritans.
(c) Jews.
(d) Christians.

2. What refers to a series of four coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States?
(a) 4/4 attacks.
(b) 9/11 attacks.
(c) Bin Laden attacks.
(d) 12/17 attacks.

3. Mamet claims in Chapter 18: The Noble Savage that Conservatives believe in ______ which is not a fantasy and which is a proven success.
(a) The stock market.
(b) Christianity.
(c) The free market.
(d) Democracy.

4. Where was Saul Alinsky born?
(a) Boston.
(b) Boise.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Seattle.

5. When was the play "American Buffalo" first produced?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1960.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet, the United Nations destroyed the image of America by identifying the nation as what?

2. What word means to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame?

3. What is defined as the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation?

4. For what field was Milton Friedman a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize?

5. What refers to the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control?

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