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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. Maxwell Street refers to a famous street in what city?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) New Orleans.

2. At what institution did Milton Friedman teach for over three decades?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) Loyola University.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) Harvard University.

3. Who does Mamet equate liberals with who were expelled from England because their "good acts" were seen as contrived and nauseated everyone?
(a) Mormons.
(b) Jews.
(c) Puritans.
(d) Christians.

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

5. Mamet claims in Chapter 18: The Noble Savage that Conservatives believe in ______ which is not a fantasy and which is a proven success.
(a) The stock market.
(b) The free market.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the weapon equipment of a military vehicle, ship, or aircraft?

2. What refers to a series of four coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States?

3. Obama's campaign of "hope" and "change" was heralded as what, according to Mamet in Chapter 6: The Music Man?

4. In Chapter 5: Lost Horizon, Mamet writes that there is a stampede of unskilled individuals into what schools because it is an acceptable pursuit and it is not "work" per se?

5. What was the profession of David Mamet's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mamet assert of the free market in Chapter 18: The Noble Savage?

2. What question did Milton Friedman ask, according to Mamet in Chapter 10: Milton Friedman Explained? Where does Mamet believe government should and should not intervene?

3. What comparison does Mamet make between Charles Manson and Che Guevara in Chapter 4: Alcatraz?

4. What does Mamet claim would be the outcome in Iran if people expressed freedom of thought in Chapter 17: Puritans?

5. What brought about the "car czar" in the Obama administration according to Mamet in Chapter 20: Cabinet Spiritualism and the Car Czar? How does he define this title?

6. What hypocrisies does Mamet point out in liberal thought in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?"

7. How does Mamet describe the nature of laws in Chapter 13: Maxwell Street?

8. How does Mamet describe the paradox of liberal thought in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse?

9. What does Mamet say of the liberal concern for the victim in Chapter 16: The Victim?

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

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