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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Richard Nixon.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Jesse Jackson.

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

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

4. 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) Politics.
(c) Religion.
(d) The dinner table.

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

6. 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?
(a) The Hamptons.
(b) Oakerly Lake.
(c) Oakton Manor.
(d) Martha's Vineyard.

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

8. 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) Feminism.
(c) Conservatism.
(d) Monogamy.

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

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

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

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

13. 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?
(a) Church gathering.
(b) State legislature.
(c) Gang initiation.
(d) Community organizing.

14. Mamet claims in Chapter 21: Rumpelstiltskin that the impact of liberal policies will result in what?
(a) Americans being slaves to the Chinese.
(b) A better economy.
(c) The destruction of our culture.
(d) The first woman president.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who headed a radical group that occupied Columbia University and insisted that he was speaking for the student body but most students didn't support him?

2. 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?

3. When was Saul David Alinsky born?

4. Mamet writes in Chapter 31: Breatharian that government did not invent what nor can it oversee it effectively?

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

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