The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 through 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the play "Glengarry Glen Ross" first produced?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1978.

2. Who espoused the concept that "change" itself was a solution in the 2008 Presidential election, according to David Mamet?
(a) Republicans.
(b) Libertarians
(c) Communists.
(d) Democrats.

3. According to Mamet, the Left ascribes to a sharing of wealth but fails to answer what fundamental question?
(a) How important wealth is.
(b) What true wealth is.
(c) What currency is the strongest.
(d) Where the wealth came from.

4. Who is the con man in the play "The Music Man"?
(a) Harold Hill.
(b) Michael Zeers.
(c) Donald Rice.
(d) John Robbins.

5. The United States Presidential election of 2008 was numbered what quadrennial presidential election?
(a) 29th.
(b) 68th.
(c) 56th.
(d) 44th.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the play "American Buffalo" first produced?

3. What name refers to a fictional Utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet featured in the book "Lost Horizon"?

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, a group that knows nothing of the world's history plopped in an isolated area on earth has what one factor that keeps it together?

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

(see the answer key)

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