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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What executive orders did FDR institute which brought about a variety of programs designed to produce relief (government jobs for the unemployed), recovery (economic growth), and reform?
(a) The Fair Deal.
(b) The Last Deal.
(c) The New Deal.
(d) The Good Deal.

2. According to Mamet, the United Nations destroyed the image of America by identifying the nation as what?
(a) Not concerned with other countries.
(b) Lazy.
(c) Greedy.
(d) The number one criminal of the world.

3. When did the Vietnam War begin?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1949.

4. What book did David Mamet write about filmmaking?
(a) Directing the Future.
(b) On Directing Film.
(c) All About Film and Filmmaking.
(d) Films for Dummies.

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

6. When was Al Sharpton born?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1954.

7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the United States in what year?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1928.

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

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

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

11. Dred Scott v. Sandford was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants, whether or not they were slaves) could never be what?
(a) Slave owners.
(b) Christians.
(c) Republicans.
(d) U.S. citizens.

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

13. In Chapter 32: The Street Sweeper and the Surgeon, or Marxism Examined, Mamet claims that while it's absurd to judge that someone is not capable of a certain position because of his race, it is just as absurd to do what?
(a) Assume the same based on their sex.
(b) Push someone into a position who is not suited for it just because of his race.
(c) Hold an election for the position.
(d) Assume the same based on their religion.

14. When was Franklin Delano Roosevelt born?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1882.

15. What book by Sarah Palin has sold more than two million copies?
(a) Russia is Coming.
(b) How to Gut a Moose.
(c) Denali and Me.
(d) Going Rogue.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Sarah Palin born?

2. Mamet writes in Chapter 34: Hope and Change, that a democracy doesn't elect the best people in the country for what reason?

3. 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?

4. For what book is Saul Alinsky most well known?

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

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