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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Al Sharpton a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election?
(a) 1992.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1996.

2. 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 Society of Workers.
(c) The Congress of Industrial Organizations.
(d) The Teamsters.

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

4. 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?
(a) Rob Jackson.
(b) John Stephens.
(c) Mark Rudd.
(d) Arnold Thompson.

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

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

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

8. 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?
(a) Barack Obama.
(b) George W. Bush.
(c) Howard Stern.
(d) Sarah Palin.

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

10. In what year did the stock market crash, leading to the Great Depression?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1926.

11. In what year did Sarah Palin become mayor of Wasilla, Alaska?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1985.

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

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

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

15. 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 dinner table.
(b) Politics.
(c) Religion.
(d) The weekend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of legislation approved by the U.S. Congress in that prohibited further U.S. military activity in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia?

2. 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?

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

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

5. What radio talk show does Al Sharpton host?

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