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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the term Homeland Security first arise, following a reorganization of many U.S. government agencies?
(a) 1988.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1992.

2. Mamet writes in Chapter 10: Milton Friedman Explained that the advantage that free enterprise has over the state is that it can what?
(a) It can skirt regulations easier.
(b) It can advertise.
(c) Change prices and values easier.
(d) More easily and effectively correct itself.

3. 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.

4. What is defined as the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation?
(a) Sovereign nation.
(b) Multiculturalism.
(c) Utopia.
(d) Segregation.

5. In Chapter 15: The Intelligent Person's Guide to Socialism and Anti-Semitism, Mamet writes that it is difficult to understand why aid is given to Palestine when some of the money is funneled to terrorists whose main goal is to kill whom?
(a) Canadians.
(b) Mexicans.
(c) Americans.
(d) Israelis.

6. Who was Vanessa Redgrave's father?
(a) Sir Michael Redgrave.
(b) Sir Albert Hutchman.
(c) Sir Newman James.
(d) Sir James Murphy.

7. Who was the Democratic candidate in the 2008 Presidential election?
(a) Barack Obama.
(b) John McCain.
(c) Sarah Palin.
(d) Joe Biden.

8. Who espoused the concept that "change" itself was a solution in the 2008 Presidential election, according to David Mamet?
(a) Libertarians
(b) Republicans.
(c) Communists.
(d) Democrats.

9. 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"?
(a) Their hands would be cut off.
(b) They would be beheaded.
(c) They would be forced to become muslims.
(d) They would be asked to leave.

10. What does Mamet claim the Jews of the State of Israel want in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?
(a) To rely on the might of the U.S.
(b) To take over more land.
(c) To provoke the Palestinians.
(d) To protect their borders and live in peace.

11. What does Mamet claim Jane Fonda did in visiting Hanoi and being photographed seated on an anti-aircraft battery?
(a) Ended the war.
(b) Committed treason.
(c) Impressed the prsident.
(d) Enraged the Japanese.

12. When was Jane Fonda born?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1951.

13. Mamet writes in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?" that buying into the "change" that Obama has promised will cause the descent of the nation into what?
(a) Godlessness.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Anarchy.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what institution did Milton Friedman teach for over three decades?

2. In addition to being an aeronautical engineer, Nevil Shute was also what?

3. Maxwell Street refers to a famous street in what city?

4. What aircraft crashed and burned after making it only 300 miles on a trans-Atlantic trip in Chapter 14: R100?

5. What thriving industry did California tax out of the state, according to Mamet in Chapter 14: R100?

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