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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Muslim events.
(d) Christian events.

3. For what book is Saul Alinsky most well known?
(a) Nerds for Freedom.
(b) Common Sense for Peace.
(c) Rules for Radicals.
(d) Justice for Everyone.

4. What is defined as existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought?
(a) Psychic.
(b) Incentive.
(c) Subjective.
(d) Intuiion.

5. Mamet claims in Chapter 26: Feminism, that the left's dislike of Sarah Palin is in large part because she is what?
(a) Pretty.
(b) Alaskan.
(c) Smart.
(d) A "worker".

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

7. 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.

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

9. What is defined as something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity?
(a) Intuiion.
(b) Incentive.
(c) Subjective.
(d) Psychic.

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

11. 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) Taxes.
(c) Embargoes.
(d) Laws.

12. 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.

13. The State of Israel was created by a British mandate that was ratified by what organization?
(a) NATO.
(b) The Communist Party.
(c) The League of Nations.
(d) The Democratic Party.

14. What word means to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame?
(a) Critique.
(b) Praise.
(c) Denigrate.
(d) Abolish.

15. What is defined as an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment?
(a) Idealism.
(b) Complacency.
(c) Competitiveness.
(d) Ambition.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Sarah Palin resign as Governor of Alaska?

2. What incumbent Republican did Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeat in winning the U.S. Presidency?

3. When was Franklin Delano Roosevelt born?

4. Roughly when did the Cold War begin?

5. Mamet describes a friend of his daughter's who was what in Chapter 35: The Small Refrigerator?

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