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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. 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?
(a) Woodrow Wilson.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

2. When was Jane Fonda born?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1937.

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

4. In Chapter 15: The Intelligent Person's Guide to Socialism and Anti-Semitism, Mamet writes that it is difficult to understand why aid is given to Palestine when some of the money is funneled to terrorists whose main goal is to kill whom?
(a) Israelis.
(b) Canadians.
(c) Mexicans.
(d) Americans.

5. In Chapter 16: The Victim, Mamet writes that when six houses were destroyed in an incursion into Palestinian territory by the Israelis, it was depicted in Western media as what?
(a) "The Scourge of Humanity".
(b) "The Rape of Jenin".
(c) "The Holocaust".
(d) "The Spanish Inquisition".

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet claims that the Socialist vision of society, of taking care of the weak and downtrodden, only serves to do what?

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, what contains the wisdom from which the laws and the traditions of the West originate?

4. Mamet writes in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?" that buying into the "change" that Obama has promised will cause the descent of the nation into what?

5. What refers to an economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How does Mamet describe Jane Fonda's political actions in Chapter 19: Adventure Slumming?

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

5. How is Nevil Shute introduced in Chapter 14: R100? What was Shute contracted to make?

6. What does Mamet write about the meaning of the parting of the Red Sea in Chapter 8: The Red Sea?

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

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

10. How do liberal youths today relate to the book "Lost Horizon", according to Mamet in Chapter 5: Lost Horizon?

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