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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who felt that ultimate security would be found in peaceful solutions, according to Mamet in the 2008 Presidential elections?
2. According to Mamet in Chapter 9: Chicago, there was something alluring about what infamous element of Chicago in his childhood?
3. In Chapter 8: The Red Sea, Mamet writes that perhaps the parting of the Red Sea did not symbolize the unity of mankind; rather, it may have been intended to do what?
4. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, what contains the wisdom from which the laws and the traditions of the West originate?
5. What refers to a series of four coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Mamet describe Jane Fonda's political actions in Chapter 19: Adventure Slumming?
2. How does Mamet define culture in Chapter 3: Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator?
3. How does Mamet describe his former political leanings in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse?
4. How does Mamet describe the nature of laws in Chapter 13: Maxwell Street?
5. What question did Milton Friedman ask, according to Mamet in Chapter 10: Milton Friedman Explained? Where does Mamet believe government should and should not intervene?
6. What does Mamet assert of the free market in Chapter 18: The Noble Savage?
7. What hypocrisies does Mamet point out in liberal thought in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?"
8. How do liberal youths today relate to the book "Lost Horizon", according to Mamet in Chapter 5: Lost Horizon?
9. What does Mamet say of the liberal concern for the victim in Chapter 16: The Victim?
10. How does Mamet relate Obama's campaign to the musical "The Music Man" in Chapter 6: "The Music Man"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the life and career of Al Sharpton. Do you agree or disagree with Mamet's conclusions about Sharpton? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the Ashkenazi Immigration. What reasons did the Ashkenazi Jews have for leaving their homeland to come to America?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the history of World War II, the U.S. Constitution, and the president's right to declare war. Does the Constitution grant this right to the President or to Congress?
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