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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) Silver City.
(b) River City.
(c) The mountaintop.
(d) Memphis.

2. When was Sigmund Freud born?
(a) 1824.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1893.

3. In addition to being an aeronautical engineer, Nevil Shute was also what?
(a) A professinal motorcycle racer.
(b) An author.
(c) A dentist.
(d) A historian.

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

5. When was the play "American Buffalo" first produced?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1962.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did the government award Nevil Shute and a governmental department contracts to make rigid aircraft called zeppelins?

3. When was David Mamet born?

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, what contains the wisdom from which the laws and the traditions of the West originate?

5. Where is Alcatraz Island located?

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