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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mamet writes in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?" that a liberal education teaches children to dismantle and disparage what?
(a) The true heart of America.
(b) A democratic society.
(c) A culture in which their family has thrived.
(d) The Communist revolution.

2. When was the State of Israel established?
(a) 1293.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1725.

3. What is the setting of the play "The Music Man"?
(a) The mountaintop.
(b) Memphis.
(c) River City.
(d) Silver City.

4. What actor was Jane Fonda's father?
(a) Mitchell Fonda.
(b) Henry Fonda.
(c) James Fonda.
(d) Robert Fonda.

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, the denial of reality is one of the reasons the Left embraces what?
(a) Communism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Liberalism.
(d) Conservatism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name refers to a fictional Utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet featured in the book "Lost Horizon"?

2. According to Mamet, a democracy is created with the intention of ensuring that no one suffers from the state which can only be accomplished by doing what?

3. What is defined as the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation?

4. Liberals view themselves as compassionate and free-thinking but to Mamet they are what?

5. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet writes that although the Constitution gives the power to declare war to the Congress, who declared war on Japan and then got Congress' approval?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mamet describe the change in Liberal Arts education in Chapter 5: Lost Horizon?

2. What values does Mamet claim the Democrats and Republicans espoused in the 2008 election in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse?

3. How does Mamet describe his former political leanings in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse?

4. How does Mamet relate Obama's campaign to the musical "The Music Man" in Chapter 6: "The Music Man"?

5. How is the premise of "Let's Make a Deal" described in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?

6. How does Mamet describe Homeland Security in Chapter 20: Cabinet Spiritualism and the Car Czar?

7. How does Mamet describe the differences between Israel, West Germany and East Germany in Chapter 14: R100? How does this relate to American finance?

8. What economist does Mamet cite in Chapter 6: "The Music Man"? What observation is made?

9. How does Mamet relate liberalism, big government and nature in Chapter 18: The Noble Savage?

10. What does Mamet assert the liberal viewpoint does to human creativity in Chapter 13: Maxwell Street?

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