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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21 through 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Vanessa Redgrave's father?
(a) Sir James Murphy.
(b) Sir Michael Redgrave.
(c) Sir Albert Hutchman.
(d) Sir Newman James.

2. In Chapter 23: Greed, Mamet claims that in the liberal view, those who take more than their "fair share" should be what?
(a) Questioned.
(b) Punished.
(c) Imprisioned.
(d) Praised.

3. According to Mamet in Chapter 9: Chicago, there was something alluring about what infamous element of Chicago in his childhood?
(a) Dirty politics.
(b) The port authority.
(c) The garbage hauling industry.
(d) The Mafia.

4. What is the setting of the play "The Music Man"?
(a) River City.
(b) The mountaintop.
(c) Silver City.
(d) Memphis.

5. When was the novel "Lost Horizon" published?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1904.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9: Chicago, Mamet writes that the Left demands that the country continue to feel guilty about what?

2. In Chapter 23: Greed, Mamet writes that greed is a sin according to what?

3. Along with other celebrities, Jane Fonda supported what occupation in 1969 which was intended to call attention to Native American issues?

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. According to Mamet, a democracy is created with the intention of ensuring that no one suffers from the state which can only be accomplished by doing what?

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