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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 through 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What economist makes the observation that aid to a developing country actually impedes that development in Chapter 6: The Music Man?
(a) Dambisa Moyo.
(b) Paul Krugman.
(c) Wilhelm Röpke.
(d) Carl Menger.

2. For what field was Milton Friedman a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Economic Sciences.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Literature.

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 Mafia.
(c) The port authority.
(d) The garbage hauling industry.

4. When was Milton Friedman born?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1934.

5. Mamet writes in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?" that buying into the "change" that Obama has promised will cause the descent of the nation into what?
(a) Godlessness.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Anarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mamet writes in Chapter 10: Milton Friedman Explained that the advantage that free enterprise has over the state is that it can what?

2. In Chapter 3: Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator, Mamet writes that culture predates what?

3. Who is the con man in the play "The Music Man"?

4. What is the setting of the play "The Music Man"?

5. According to Mamet in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse, justice was seen by the Left as meaning what?

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