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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 through 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5: Lost Horizon, Mamet writes that there is a stampede of unskilled individuals into what schools because it is an acceptable pursuit and it is not "work" per se?
(a) Business schools.
(b) Film schools.
(c) Ivy league.
(d) Technical colleges.

3. What was the name of David Mamet's father?
(a) Marcus Robert Mamet.
(b) Herbert David Mamet.
(c) Bernard Morris Mamet.
(d) James Russel Mamet.

4. In Chapter 3: Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator, Mamet writes that culture predates what?
(a) Humans.
(b) Time.
(c) The bible.
(d) Society.

5. What television game show is referenced in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?
(a) "The Price is Right".
(b) "Family Feud".
(c) "Let's Make a Deal".
(d) "Wheel of Fortune".

Short Answer Questions

1. The United States Presidential election of 2008 was numbered what quadrennial presidential election?

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

3. What does Mamet claim the Jews of the State of Israel want in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?

4. Maxwell Street refers to a famous street in what city?

5. In Chapter 16: The Victim, Mamet writes that the liberal concern for the "victim" is merely an attempt to do what?

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