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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. What concept stands on the side of the street sweeper and urges him to ask for more on payday since he gets far less than a physician, according to Mamet in Chapter 32: The Street Sweeper and the Surgeon, or Marxism Examined?
(a) Communism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Liberalism.
(d) Socialism.

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?
(a) Jesse Jackson.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Richard Nixon.

3. What incumbent Republican did Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeat in winning the U.S. Presidency?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

4. When did the Vietnam War begin?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1962.

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 31: Breatharian that government did not invent what nor can it oversee it effectively?
(a) The automobile industry.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) The film industry.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what office was Sarah Palin elected in 1992?

2. 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?

3. What refers to the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control?

4. In what year did Sarah Palin become mayor of Wasilla, Alaska?

5. What book by Sarah Palin has sold more than two million copies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to the diminishing of conservative Judaism in Mamet's family, as described in Chapter 27: The Ashkenazis?

2. How does Mamet describe the internal sources of America's destruction in Chapter 22: My Father, Al Sharpton, and the Designated Criminal? What external sources does he describe?

3. Why does Mamet criticize the words "hope" and "change" in the Obama campaign in Chapter 34: Hope and Change?

4. How did David Mamet's political beliefs evolve throughout his life?

5. What importance does Mamet lay on the foundation of family in Chapter 29: The Family?

6. How does Mamet describe liberal hypocrisy in regard to feminism in Chapter 26: Feminism?

7. How is Saul Alinsky described in Chapter 37: Late Revelations? What criticism does Mamet have for community organization?

8. What is the outcome of government intervention in the economy according to Mamet in Chapter 31: Breatharian?

9. How does Mamet describe his Christian experiences at Kamp Kwaga in Chapter 25: Oakton Manor and Camp Kawaga?

10. What metaphor does Mamet cite for liberal perspectives in Chapter 35: The Small Refrigerator?

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