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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 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) Identity politics.
(c) Blind politics.
(d) Party politics.

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

3. 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?
(a) Misery.
(b) Classes.
(c) Bliss.
(d) Fueding.

4. According to David Mamet, Al Sharpton complains about hair salons in black communities being owned largely by whom?
(a) Asians.
(b) Indians.
(c) Mexicans.
(d) Canadians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mamet in Chapter 29: The Family, liberal universities mislead students by teaching them that society is susceptible to what?

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

3. What book did David Mamet write about filmmaking?

4. Who did David Mamet claim was a brilliant actress and comedienne but failed to meet the standards of the feminists of her day in Chapter 26: Feminism?

5. What is defined as a group pattern of habitual activity usually transmitted from one generation to another?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mamet relate the metaphor of the street sweeper to Marxism in Chapter 32: The Street Sweeper and the Surgeon, or Marxism Examined?

2. What does Mamet claim about war, diplomacy and choice in Chapter 36: Bumper Stickers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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