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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mamet claims in Chapter 26: Feminism, that the left's dislike of Sarah Palin is in large part because she is what?
(a) Alaskan.
(b) Smart.
(c) Pretty.
(d) A "worker".

2. Mamet writes in Chapter 31: Breatharian that government did not invent what nor can it oversee it effectively?
(a) The automobile industry.
(b) The film industry.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Religion.

3. Dred Scott v. Sandford was a ruling from what year?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1822.

4. Where was Al Sharpton born?
(a) Brooklyn, New York.
(b) Atlanta, Georgia.
(c) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
(d) Detroit, Michigan.

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 34: Hope and Change, that a democracy doesn't elect the best people in the country for what reason?
(a) They don't raise enough funds.
(b) They represent a third party.
(c) They aren't as popular.
(d) They generally don't run.

6. The State of Israel was created by a British mandate that was ratified by what organization?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Communist Party.
(c) The League of Nations.
(d) NATO.

7. What is defined as an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment?
(a) Idealism.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Complacency.
(d) Competitiveness.

8. Whose poem written for his son and containing many Christian references did Mamet read while at Camp Kawaga?
(a) Mark Twain's.
(b) William Shakespear's.
(c) General MacArthur's.
(d) Aldo Leopold's.

9. What executive orders did FDR institute which brought about a variety of programs designed to produce relief (government jobs for the unemployed), recovery (economic growth), and reform?
(a) The Good Deal.
(b) The Fair Deal.
(c) The Last Deal.
(d) The New Deal.

10. According to David Mamet, Al Sharpton complains about hair salons in black communities being owned largely by whom?
(a) Canadians.
(b) Asians.
(c) Mexicans.
(d) Indians.

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

12. What book did David Mamet write about filmmaking?
(a) All About Film and Filmmaking.
(b) On Directing Film.
(c) Directing the Future.
(d) Films for Dummies.

13. What is defined as something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity?
(a) Intuiion.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Psychic.
(d) Incentive.

14. Karl Marx was quoted for saying that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his" what?
(a) Means.
(b) Beliefs.
(c) Want.
(d) Need.

15. Dred Scott v. Sandford was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants, whether or not they were slaves) could never be what?
(a) U.S. citizens.
(b) Christians.
(c) Slave owners.
(d) Republicans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a way the government generates revenues and which are based on proportions of earnings which is considered fair, according to Mamet?

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

3. Who was an American politician and promotion of liberal causes in the Democratic Party and served as the 31st Governor of Illinois?

4. What is defined as the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.?

5. U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in what year?

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