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

2. What does Mamet define as the practice of indicting and assaulting others for their opinions or for sometimes just stating the truth in Chapter 24: Arrested Development?
(a) Persecution politics.
(b) Blind politics.
(c) Identity politics.
(d) Party politics.

3. Mamet writes that marriage is a naturally evolved response to the primordial urge for what?
(a) Monogamy.
(b) Religion.
(c) Biological urges.
(d) Finance.

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 29: The Family, liberal universities mislead students by teaching them that society is susceptible to what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Reason.
(d) Love.

5. In Chapter 36: Bumper Stickers, Mamet claims that old bumper stickers like "War Is Not the Answer," gave the false impression that there is only a choice between death and what?
(a) Surrender.
(b) Hope.
(c) Life.
(d) Struggle.

Short Answer Questions

1. The State of Israel was created by a British mandate that was ratified by what organization?

2. 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?

3. Where was Karl Marx born?

4. Mamet writes in Chapter 33: Self-Evident Truth that our nation has been the most successful in history because our laws are built upon the concept that compassion and greed in the hands of the state will result in what?

5. What executive orders did FDR institute which brought about a variety of programs designed to produce relief (government jobs for the unemployed), recovery (economic growth), and reform?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How has opinion changed regarding the Jewish people, according to Mamet in Chapter 28: Some Personal History?

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

8. How are the Ashkenazi Jews described in Chapter 27: The Ashkenazis? How did Mamet's grandparents succeed in America?

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

10. How does Mamet relate the government to a sports referee in Chapter 30: Naturally Evolved Institutions?

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