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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29 through 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is defined as an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes?
(a) Postmodernism.
(b) Society.
(c) Multiculturalism.
(d) Cult.

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

3. Karl Marx was quoted for saying that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his" what?
(a) Beliefs.
(b) Means.
(c) Need.
(d) Want.

4. What does Mamet assert would happen to the occupants of an Iranian vehicle with a bumper sticker with a Christian cross, a star of David and a Muslim crescent and the single word, "Co-Exist"?
(a) They would be asked to leave.
(b) They would be forced to become muslims.
(c) They would be beheaded.
(d) Their hands would be cut off.

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 31: Breatharian that government did not invent what nor can it oversee it effectively?
(a) The automobile industry.
(b) The film industry.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Milton Friedman born?

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

3. What is defined as existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought?

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 9: Chicago, there was something alluring about what infamous element of Chicago in his childhood?

5. What does Mamet claim Jane Fonda did in visiting Hanoi and being photographed seated on an anti-aircraft battery?

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