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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 the NAACP formed?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1895.

2. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet claims that to Liberals, the government has the responsibility of protecting anyone who claims to be what?
(a) Mentally unstable.
(b) Uneducated.
(c) Powerless.
(d) Poor.

3. What was the name of legislation approved by the U.S. Congress in that prohibited further U.S. military activity in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia?
(a) The Case-Church Amendment.
(b) The Victory Amendment.
(c) The White Flag Amendment.
(d) The Bring Our Kids Home Amendment.

4. When was the novel "Lost Horizon" published?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1911.

5. What incumbent Republican did Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeat in winning the U.S. Presidency?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) John Adams.

Short Answer Questions

1. The main effects of the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford in history were the rise of the Republican Party over what party?

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

3. What is defined as existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought?

4. Who wrote the novel "Lost Horizon"?

5. In Chapter 3: Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator, Mamet writes that culture predates what?

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