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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) Culture.
(b) Ancient history.
(c) Racism.
(d) Society.

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

3. Freedom of speech in the United States is protected by what Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
(a) The Fith Amendment.
(b) The Second Amendment.
(c) The Eighth Amendment.
(d) The First Amendment.

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) Imprisioned.
(c) Punished.
(d) Questioned.

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

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

7. In 1969, Al Sharpton was appointed by whom as youth director of Operation Breadbasket, a group that focused on the promotion of new and better jobs for African-Americans?
(a) Jesse Jackson.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Richard Nixon.

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

9. 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) Christians.
(b) U.S. citizens.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Slave owners.

10. What was the name of legislation approved by the U.S. Congress in that prohibited further U.S. military activity in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia?
(a) The Case-Church Amendment.
(b) The White Flag Amendment.
(c) The Victory Amendment.
(d) The Bring Our Kids Home Amendment.

11. Mamet claims in Chapter 38: Who Does One Think He Is? that the difference between fairness and equality is that the latter can be given what?
(a) To future generations.
(b) Laws.
(c) A value.
(d) A standard.

12. Mamet's father only finished how many years of community college before he bluffed his way into law school?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 0.
(d) 2.

13. Mamet claims in Chapter 35: The Small Refrigerator, that the biggest fault of his generation is what?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Ingratitude.
(c) Pride.
(d) Anger.

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

15. According to Mamet in Chapter 29: The Family, liberal universities mislead students by teaching them that society is susceptible to what?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Love.
(c) Justice.
(d) Reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did David Mamet claim was a brilliant actress and comedienne but failed to meet the standards of the feminists of her day in Chapter 26: Feminism?

2. For what book is Saul Alinsky most well known?

3. Mamet writes in Chapter 33: Self-Evident Truth that American Democracy is based on the belief that what?

4. What refers to a process where people who live in proximity to each other come together into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest?

5. The Ashkenazi Jews were from where?

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