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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. U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in what year?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1964.

2. What is defined as existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought?
(a) Subjective.
(b) Psychic.
(c) Intuiion.
(d) Incentive.

3. Mamet claims in Chapter 21: Rumpelstiltskin that the Obama administration refuses to accept the fact that the West is threatened by what?
(a) Nazism.
(b) Christian Evangelicism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Islamic Fascism.

4. U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War ended in what year?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1966.

5. 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?
(a) Laws.
(b) A value.
(c) A standard.
(d) To future generations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What location does Mamet describe as similar to the Catskills and was a playground for adult Jews who were restricted from other hotels and resorts?

2. According to David Mamet, Al Sharpton complains about hair salons in black communities being owned largely by whom?

3. 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?

4. Mamet claims in Chapter 37: Late Revelations that the Obama campaign slogans suggested that change happens without what?

5. In Chapter 23: Greed, Mamet writes that greed is a sin according to what?

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 relate the benefits of working on a movie set in Chapter 38: Who Does One Think He Is?

3. How does Mamet relate liberals to Rumpelstiltskin?

4. How does Mamet describe the impact of the Dred Scott Decision in Chapter 33: Self-Evident Truth?

5. From what did the institution of marriage arise, according to Mamet in Chapter 30: Naturally Evolved Institutions?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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