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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 book did David Mamet write about filmmaking?
(a) Films for Dummies.
(b) Directing the Future.
(c) All About Film and Filmmaking.
(d) On Directing Film.

2. Whose poem written for his son and containing many Christian references did Mamet read while at Camp Kawaga?
(a) William Shakespear's.
(b) Mark Twain's.
(c) Aldo Leopold's.
(d) General MacArthur's.

3. In Chapter 23: Greed, Mamet claims that in the liberal view, those who take more than their "fair share" should be what?
(a) Punished.
(b) Praised.
(c) Imprisioned.
(d) Questioned.

4. Mamet writes in Chapter 24: Arrested Development that while teaching a drama course, Mamet encountered students who didn't want the villain of a story to be what?
(a) An American.
(b) A Jew.
(c) An Arab.
(d) An Australian.

5. 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) George W. Bush.
(b) Sarah Palin.
(c) Barack Obama.
(d) Howard Stern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet claims in Chapter 38: Who Does One Think He Is? that the difference between fairness and equality is that the latter can be given what?

2. U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War ended in what year?

3. In what year did the stock market crash, leading to the Great Depression?

4. When was Sarah Palin born?

5. Freedom of speech in the United States is protected by what Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Mamet state that a democracy does not generally elect the best people into office in Chapter 34: Hope and Change? What example does he cite?

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

4. What does Mamet claim about the denigration of American culture in Chapter 22: My Father, Al Sharpton, and the Designated Criminal?

5. What does Mamet write about his own military experience in Chapter 37: Late Revelations?

6. What does Mamet write about the 2008 housing collapse in Chapter 23: Greed?

7. Why does Mamet assert he wrote the book The Secret Knowledge in Chapter 38: Who Does One Think He Is?

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

9. What does Mamet assert to be the reason for America's success in Chapter 39: The Secret Knowledge? What threatens that success to Mamet?

10. What is the outcome when the government intervenes on the side of the street sweeper according to Mamet in Chapter 32: The Street Sweeper and the Surgeon, or Marxism Examined?

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