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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mamet define as the practice of indicting and assaulting others for their opinions or for sometimes just stating the truth in Chapter 24: Arrested Development?
(a) Identity politics.
(b) Blind politics.
(c) Persecution politics.
(d) Party politics.

2. Whose poem written for his son and containing many Christian references did Mamet read while at Camp Kawaga?
(a) Mark Twain's.
(b) William Shakespear's.
(c) Aldo Leopold's.
(d) General MacArthur's.

3. What refers to the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control?
(a) Eduacation sector.
(b) Private sector.
(c) Military sector.
(d) Religious sector.

4. Mamet writes that he did not serve in the military for what reason in Chapter 37: Late Revelations?
(a) He moved to Mexico.
(b) He was wealthy.
(c) He moved to Canada.
(d) He was given a deferment.

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 Green Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) The Torey Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

6. 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 Antonin Scalia.
(d) Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.

7. 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 Good Deal.
(c) The New Deal.
(d) The Last Deal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. In 1987, Mamet made his film directing debut with what movie?
(a) Signs of Sorrow.
(b) Field of Flowers.
(c) City of Angels.
(d) House of Games.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who headed a radical group that occupied Columbia University and insisted that he was speaking for the student body but most students didn't support him?

2. What is defined as the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.?

3. When was Sarah Palin born?

4. What is a way the government generates revenues and which are based on proportions of earnings which is considered fair, according to Mamet?

5. Although Camp Kawaga in Chicago that Mamet attended was a summer camp for Jewish children, they were forced to take part in what?

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