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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25 through 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to an economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies?
(a) Wreckless market.
(b) Free market.
(c) Leashed market.
(d) Caged market.

2. Mamet's father only finished how many years of community college before he bluffed his way into law school?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

3. What term refers to the weapon equipment of a military vehicle, ship, or aircraft?
(a) Apparatus of death.
(b) Artillery.
(c) Canon.
(d) Armament.

4. Who does Mamet describe as having actually convinced a portion of the public that they could perform magic and miracles in the 19th century?
(a) The Senate Shamans.
(b) The Cabinet Spiritualists.
(c) The Liberal Wizards.
(d) The Republican Magicians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of the play Glengarry Glen Ross?

2. What television game show is referenced in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?

3. It is Mamet's opinion in Chapter 22: My Father, Al Sharpton, and the Designated Criminal that who sends the message everyday that America has surrendered and is ready to be taken over by our enemies?

4. In Chapter 16: The Victim, Mamet writes that when six houses were destroyed in an incursion into Palestinian territory by the Israelis, it was depicted in Western media as what?

5. What refers to a series of four coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States?

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