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

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

3. 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) A Jew.
(b) An Arab.
(c) An American.
(d) An Australian.

4. What book is Karl Marx most well-known for writing?
(a) Mein Kampf.
(b) The World According to Garp.
(c) The Communist Manifesto.
(d) The Socialist Manifesto.

5. Mamet describes a friend of his daughter's who was what in Chapter 35: The Small Refrigerator?
(a) A mormon.
(b) A beauty queen.
(c) A muslim.
(d) An heiress.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 32: The Street Sweeper and the Surgeon, or Marxism Examined, Mamet claims that while it's absurd to judge that someone is not capable of a certain position because of his race, it is just as absurd to do what?

2. Mamet's father only finished how many years of community college before he bluffed his way into law school?

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

4. Whose poem written for his son and containing many Christian references did Mamet read while at Camp Kawaga?

5. What is a way the government generates revenues and which are based on proportions of earnings which is considered fair, according to Mamet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mamet relate demagoguery to the Obama campaign in Chapter 33: Self-Evident Truth?

2. For what play was Mamet criticized for misogynistic views in Chapter 26: Feminism? What was his response?

3. How does Mamet define greed and ambition in Chapter 23: Greed?

4. How does Mamet relate liberals to Rumpelstiltskin?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. What does Mamet claim to the objective of Al Sharpton in Chapter 22: My Father, Al Sharpton, and the Designated Criminal?

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