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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. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, what contains the wisdom from which the laws and the traditions of the West originate?
(a) Common sense.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Cosmos.

2. According to Mamet in Chapter 7: Choice, the denial of reality is one of the reasons the Left embraces what?
(a) Conservatism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Liberalism.
(d) Socialism.

3. When was Vanessa Redgrave born?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1923.

4. 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.

5. What is defined as the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation?
(a) Utopia.
(b) Sovereign nation.
(c) Multiculturalism.
(d) Segregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. According to Mamet, a democracy is created with the intention of ensuring that no one suffers from the state which can only be accomplished by doing what?

3. Who felt that ultimate security would be found in peaceful solutions, according to Mamet in the 2008 Presidential elections?

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

5. What was the profession of David Mamet's father?

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