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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Al Sharpton born?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1954.

2. In what year was Al Sharpton a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election?
(a) 1996.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2004.
(d) 1992.

3. In what year was Sarah Palin appointed Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission?
(a) 1995.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2000.
(d) 2005.

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

5. Roughly when did the Cold War begin?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1946.

6. Mamet writes that he did not serve in the military for what reason in Chapter 37: Late Revelations?
(a) He was given a deferment.
(b) He moved to Mexico.
(c) He moved to Canada.
(d) He was wealthy.

7. When did Mamet's grandparents immigrate to the United States?
(a) The 1890s.
(b) The 1910s.
(c) The 1920s.
(d) The 1900s.

8. What was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955?
(a) The Federation of North American Workers.
(b) The Congress of Industrial Organizations.
(c) The Teamsters.
(d) The Society of Workers.

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 Last Deal.
(b) The Fair Deal.
(c) The Good Deal.
(d) The New Deal.

10. Mamet claims in Chapter 37: Late Revelations that the Obama campaign slogans suggested that change happens without what?
(a) Reason.
(b) Effort.
(c) Consequences.
(d) Warning.

11. What does Mamet define as when government vows to lead the people to the Promised Land in Chapter 33: Self-Evident Truth?
(a) Misogyny.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Demagoguery.
(d) Propaganda.

12. 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.

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

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

15. Mamet claims in Chapter 21: Rumpelstiltskin that the Obama administration refuses to accept the fact that the West is threatened by what?
(a) Islamic Fascism.
(b) Christian Evangelicism.
(c) Nazism.
(d) Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 36: Bumper Stickers, Mamet claims that old bumper stickers like "War Is Not the Answer," gave the false impression that there is only a choice between death and what?

2. 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?

3. What is defined as something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity?

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

5. What is defined as existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought?

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