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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Lucille Ball.
(b) Marilyn Monroe.
(c) Jane Fonda.
(d) Susan Sarandon.

2. Mamet describes being criticized for being a misogynist by a female critic for what play in Chapter 26: Feminism?
(a) American Buffalo.
(b) Waiting for Godot.
(c) Oleanna.
(d) Sexual Perversity in Chicago.

3. What is defined as a group pattern of habitual activity usually transmitted from one generation to another?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Society.
(c) Custom.
(d) Anxiety.

4. Mamet claims in Chapter 31: Breatharian, that government intervention serves to do what?
(a) Retard the advancement of man.
(b) Create regulations and taxes.
(c) Complicate simple tasks.
(d) Advance the understandings of man.

5. What is defined as an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes?
(a) Cult.
(b) Postmodernism.
(c) Society.
(d) Multiculturalism.

6. What concept stands on the side of the street sweeper and urges him to ask for more on payday since he gets far less than a physician, according to Mamet in Chapter 32: The Street Sweeper and the Surgeon, or Marxism Examined?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Liberalism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Communism.

7. Mamet writes in Chapter 29: The Family, that the family is the single-most important unit for transmitting what?
(a) Love.
(b) Information about justice.
(c) Cultural information.
(d) Political views.

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

9. It is Mamet's opinion in Chapter 22: My Father, Al Sharpton, and the Designated Criminal that who sends the message everyday that America has surrendered and is ready to be taken over by our enemies?
(a) Howard Stern.
(b) Barack Obama.
(c) George W. Bush.
(d) Sarah Palin.

10. In Chapter 26: Feminism, Mamet claims that the weakening of what will eventually destroy the family which is essential for a successful society?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Monogamy.
(c) Conservatism.
(d) Feminism.

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

12. In what year did Sarah Palin become mayor of Wasilla, Alaska?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1997.

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

14. Mamet claims in Chapter 33: Self-Evident Truth, that the people should save their abstract such as hope and their spiritual beliefs for what?
(a) The weekend.
(b) The dinner table.
(c) Religion.
(d) Politics.

15. When did Saul David Alinsky die?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1953.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book by Sarah Palin has sold more than two million copies?

2. Where was Al Sharpton born?

3. Although Camp Kawaga in Chicago that Mamet attended was a summer camp for Jewish children, they were forced to take part in 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. In Chapter 23: Greed, Mamet writes that greed is a sin according to what?

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