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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 headed a radical group that occupied Columbia University and insisted that he was speaking for the student body but most students didn't support him?

2. In what year did Sarah Palin become mayor of Wasilla, Alaska?

3. Mamet claims in Chapter 31: Breatharian, that government intervention serves to do what?

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

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 33: Self-Evident Truth that American Democracy is based on the belief that what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Saul Alinsky described in Chapter 37: Late Revelations? What criticism does Mamet have for community organization?

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

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

6. 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?

7. How does Mamet relate liberals to Rumpelstiltskin?

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

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

10. How does Mamet describe the internal sources of America's destruction in Chapter 22: My Father, Al Sharpton, and the Designated Criminal? What external sources does he describe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the failure of the housing market in 2008-2010 and the reasons it came about. What does Mamet blame for the fallout?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Mamet's metaphors in Chapter 29: The Family and Chapter 30: Naturally Evolved Institutions. How does Mamet describe the role of government using a child's sports game as an example?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the Car Czar, Cabinet Spiritualists and Homeland Security. How does Mamet equate Homeland Security with big government? What president established Homeland Security?

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