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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a way the government generates revenues and which are based on proportions of earnings which is considered fair, according to Mamet?
(a) Charities.
(b) Embargoes.
(c) Laws.
(d) Taxes.

2. Mamet describes a friend of his daughter's who was what in Chapter 35: The Small Refrigerator?
(a) A muslim.
(b) An heiress.
(c) A beauty queen.
(d) A mormon.

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

4. In Chapter 38: Who Does One Think He Is? Mamet claims that he wrote "The Secret Knowledge" not because he's an expert but because he is what?
(a) A true patriot.
(b) Lacking listeners.
(c) Saddened by the state of the country.
(d) A citizen with something to say.

5. 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) Democracy.
(b) Liberalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Socialism.

6. Mamet writes in Chapter 34: Hope and Change, that a democracy doesn't elect the best people in the country for what reason?
(a) They generally don't run.
(b) They aren't as popular.
(c) They don't raise enough funds.
(d) They represent a third party.

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

8. What book is Karl Marx most well-known for writing?
(a) The Communist Manifesto.
(b) The Socialist Manifesto.
(c) Mein Kampf.
(d) The World According to Garp.

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

10. When was Karl Marx born?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1818.

11. In what year did the stock market crash, leading to the Great Depression?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1926.

12. In Chapter 30: Naturally Evolved Institutions, Mamet writes that liberals want to make the world fair by giving what to those with less ability or who are perceived to have been disadvantaged by society?
(a) An advantage.
(b) Money.
(c) Free education.
(d) Gold.

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

14. When was Sarah Palin born?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1970.

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

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

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 29: The Family, liberal universities mislead students by teaching them that society is susceptible to what?

4. What radio talk show does Al Sharpton host?

5. Dred Scott v. Sandford was a ruling from what year?

(see the answer keys)

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