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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Although Camp Kawaga in Chicago that Mamet attended was a summer camp for Jewish children, they were forced to take part in what?
(a) Christian events.
(b) Muslim events.
(c) Pagan events.
(d) Republican events.

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

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

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

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 33: Self-Evident Truth that American Democracy is based on the belief that what?
(a) All men are created equal.
(b) We can't go back to England.
(c) Christianity is the true religion.
(d) Communism is wrong.

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

7. The Ashkenazi Jews were from where?
(a) Milwaukee.
(b) Southern France.
(c) Canada.
(d) Eastern Europe.

8. When was Saul David Alinsky born?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1896.
(d) 1912.

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

15. 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) State legislature.
(b) Church gathering.
(c) Gang initiation.
(d) Community organizing.

Short Answer 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?

2. The main effects of the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford in history were the rise of the Republican Party over what party?

3. Mamet claims in Chapter 33: Self-Evident Truth, that the people should save their abstract such as hope and their spiritual beliefs for what?

4. Roughly when did the Cold War begin?

5. Whose poem written for his son and containing many Christian references did Mamet read while at Camp Kawaga?

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