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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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".

2. What does Mamet claim the Arabs want in regard to the State of Israel in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?
(a) A buffer zone along the border.
(b) Free entry in and out of Israel.
(c) To live in peace with the Jews.
(d) To destroy Israel and claim the land.

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

4. According to Mamet, the Left ascribes to a sharing of wealth but fails to answer what fundamental question?
(a) How important wealth is.
(b) What currency is the strongest.
(c) What true wealth is.
(d) Where the wealth came from.

5. What refers to a prohibition or interdiction of anything; exclusion from use or practice?
(a) Embargo.
(b) Taboo.
(c) Tariff.
(d) Bounty.

6. What thriving industry did California tax out of the state, according to Mamet in Chapter 14: R100?
(a) Manufacturing.
(b) The film industry.
(c) Recreation.
(d) Scientific research.

7. In Chapter 16: The Victim, Mamet writes that the liberal concern for the "victim" is merely an attempt to do what?
(a) Attain power and fame.
(b) Raise money.
(c) Evoke a religious, spiritual feeling.
(d) Be martyrs.

8. 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 advertise.
(b) Change prices and values easier.
(c) It can skirt regulations easier.
(d) More easily and effectively correct itself.

9. Where is Alcatraz Island located?
(a) Humboldt Bay.
(b) San Francisco Bay.
(c) The Sea of Cortez.
(d) Puget Sound.

10. In Chapter 16: The Victim, Mamet writes that when six houses were destroyed in an incursion into Palestinian territory by the Israelis, it was depicted in Western media as what?
(a) "The Spanish Inquisition".
(b) "The Scourge of Humanity".
(c) "The Rape of Jenin".
(d) "The Holocaust".

11. When was Milton Friedman born?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1912.

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

13. When did a non-violent counterrevolution overthrow the Communists in East Germany?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1979.

14. In what year did the government award Nevil Shute and a governmental department contracts to make rigid aircraft called zeppelins?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1936.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet claims in Chapter 18: The Noble Savage that Conservatives believe in ______ which is not a fantasy and which is a proven success.

2. Who espoused the concept that "change" itself was a solution in the 2008 Presidential election, according to David Mamet?

3. When was Vanessa Redgrave born?

4. Where was Vanessa Redgrave born?

5. According to Mamet, who supported the concepts of fiscal conservatism, lower taxes and a strong military in the 2008 Presidential election?

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