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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 through 20.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Mamet claim the political impulse originated from in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse?
(a) A desire to rule lower classes.
(b) A natural urge to bring order to social relations.
(c) A way to convey one's perspective.
(d) Ancient Roman times.
2. Mamet writes in Chapter 10: Milton Friedman Explained that the advantage that free enterprise has over the state is that it can what?
(a) Change prices and values easier.
(b) More easily and effectively correct itself.
(c) It can advertise.
(d) It can skirt regulations easier.
3. In Chapter 9: Chicago, Mamet writes that the culture of society could be summed up in one phrase, "That's how we do things in Chicago," the sub-text of which was what?
(a) You are doing things wrong.
(b) Ignorance is bliss.
(c) Not to question established conventions.
(d) We are better than you.
4. What does Mamet assert would happen to the occupants of an Iranian vehicle with a bumper sticker with a Christian cross, a star of David and a Muslim crescent and the single word, "Co-Exist"?
(a) They would be forced to become muslims.
(b) Their hands would be cut off.
(c) They would be asked to leave.
(d) They would be beheaded.
5. Mamet has mused that he'd rather deal with a crooked cop than what in Chapter 9: Chicago?
(a) A bureaucrat.
(b) The mafia.
(c) The mayor.
(d) A baseball player.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was the Democratic candidate in the 2008 Presidential election?
2. What does Mamet claim the Jews of the State of Israel want in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?
3. According to Mamet in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse, justice was seen by the Left as meaning what?
4. Who is the con man in the play "The Music Man"?
5. What thriving industry did California tax out of the state, according to Mamet in Chapter 14: R100?
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