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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mamet writes in Chapter 24: Arrested Development that while teaching a drama course, Mamet encountered students who didn't want the villain of a story to be what?
(a) An Arab.
(b) A Jew.
(c) An American.
(d) An Australian.

2. 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) The dinner table.
(d) Religion.

3. In Chapter 23: Greed, Mamet writes that greed is a sin according to what?
(a) The Bill of Rights.
(b) The Ten Commandments.
(c) The U.N. Charter.
(d) The U.S. Constitution.

4. 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) Jane Fonda.
(b) Susan Sarandon.
(c) Lucille Ball.
(d) Marilyn Monroe.

5. The main effects of the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford in history were the rise of the Republican Party over what party?
(a) The Whig Party.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The Green Party.
(d) The Torey Party.

6. What was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955?
(a) The Society of Workers.
(b) The Federation of North American Workers.
(c) The Congress of Industrial Organizations.
(d) The Teamsters.

7. In Chapter 23: Greed, Mamet claims that in the liberal view, those who take more than their "fair share" should be what?
(a) Imprisioned.
(b) Punished.
(c) Questioned.
(d) Praised.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What incumbent Republican did Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeat in winning the U.S. Presidency?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) John Adams.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is defined as a group pattern of habitual activity usually transmitted from one generation to another?

2. What radio talk show does Al Sharpton host?

3. When did Mamet's grandparents immigrate to the United States?

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

5. 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?

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