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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the weapon equipment of a military vehicle, ship, or aircraft?
(a) Apparatus of death.
(b) Armament.
(c) Artillery.
(d) Canon.

2. In Chapter 5: Lost Horizon, Mamet writes that there is a stampede of unskilled individuals into what schools because it is an acceptable pursuit and it is not "work" per se?
(a) Ivy league.
(b) Business schools.
(c) Technical colleges.
(d) Film schools.

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) Christianity.
(b) The free market.
(c) Democracy.
(d) The stock market.

4. What television game show is referenced in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?
(a) "Let's Make a Deal".
(b) "The Price is Right".
(c) "Family Feud".
(d) "Wheel of Fortune".

5. 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?
(a) Leashed market.
(b) Free market.
(c) Wreckless market.
(d) Caged market.

6. In Chapter 9: Chicago, Mamet writes that the Left demands that the country continue to feel guilty about what?
(a) The space race.
(b) Slavery.
(c) World War II.
(d) The Great Depression.

7. In what year did Jane Fonda visit Hanoi, where she was photographed seated on an anti-aircraft battery?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1972.

8. 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 Rape of Jenin".
(b) "The Scourge of Humanity".
(c) "The Spanish Inquisition".
(d) "The Holocaust".

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

10. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet claims that the Socialist vision of society, of taking care of the weak and downtrodden, only serves to do what?
(a) Tear at the fabric of our nation.
(b) Make America less prosperous.
(c) Curb creativity and human imagination.
(d) Encourage dependability on the government.

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

12. What does Mamet claim the political impulse originated from in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse?
(a) A natural urge to bring order to social relations.
(b) A way to convey one's perspective.
(c) A desire to rule lower classes.
(d) Ancient Roman times.

13. In Chapter 10: Milton Friedman Explained, Mamet writes that as opposed to asking, "What are the decisions?" Milton Friedman posed what question?
(a) "Can't I make my own decisions".
(b) "Decisions for who".
(c) "Who needs decisions".
(d) "Who makes decisions".

14. What is defined as a suspicion of, hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage?
(a) Anti Judaism.
(b) Anti Israelism.
(c) Anti Palestinianism.
(d) Anti Semitism.

15. What aircraft crashed and burned after making it only 300 miles on a trans-Atlantic trip in Chapter 14: R100?
(a) The B732.
(b) The R101.
(c) The P839.
(d) The M441.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse, justice was seen by the Left as meaning what?

2. When was the play "American Buffalo" first produced?

3. Who was Vanessa Redgrave's father?

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

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?" that a liberal education teaches children to dismantle and disparage what?

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