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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.?
(a) Ancient history.
(b) Society.
(c) Culture.
(d) Racism.

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

3. Mamet writes that marriage is a naturally evolved response to the primordial urge for what?
(a) Religion.
(b) Biological urges.
(c) Finance.
(d) Monogamy.

4. In Chapter 23: Greed, Mamet claims that in the liberal view, those who take more than their "fair share" should be what?
(a) Praised.
(b) Punished.
(c) Imprisioned.
(d) Questioned.

5. In what year did Sarah Palin resign as Governor of Alaska?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2007.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2010.

6. When was Sarah Palin elected Governor of Alaska?
(a) 2006.
(b) 1997.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1999.

7. What does Mamet define as the practice of indicting and assaulting others for their opinions or for sometimes just stating the truth in Chapter 24: Arrested Development?
(a) Party politics.
(b) Persecution politics.
(c) Identity politics.
(d) Blind politics.

8. U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in what year?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1963.

9. U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War ended in what year?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1973.

10. Who wrote the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford?
(a) Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.
(b) Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.
(c) Chief Justice Roger B. Taney.
(d) Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.

11. In 1987, Mamet made his film directing debut with what movie?
(a) City of Angels.
(b) House of Games.
(c) Field of Flowers.
(d) Signs of Sorrow.

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

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

14. Although Camp Kawaga in Chicago that Mamet attended was a summer camp for Jewish children, they were forced to take part in what?
(a) Republican events.
(b) Christian events.
(c) Pagan events.
(d) Muslim events.

15. In Chapter 32: The Street Sweeper and the Surgeon, or Marxism Examined, Mamet claims that while it's absurd to judge that someone is not capable of a certain position because of his race, it is just as absurd to do what?
(a) Hold an election for the position.
(b) Assume the same based on their religion.
(c) Push someone into a position who is not suited for it just because of his race.
(d) Assume the same based on their sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Sarah Palin born?

2. When was Al Sharpton born?

3. According to David Mamet, Al Sharpton complains about hair salons in black communities being owned largely by whom?

4. Karl Marx was quoted for saying that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his" what?

5. What location does Mamet describe as similar to the Catskills and was a playground for adult Jews who were restricted from other hotels and resorts?

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