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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29 through 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Karl Marx was quoted for saying that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his" what?
(a) Want.
(b) Need.
(c) Beliefs.
(d) Means.

2. What aircraft crashed and burned after making it only 300 miles on a trans-Atlantic trip in Chapter 14: R100?
(a) The B732.
(b) The M441.
(c) The R101.
(d) The P839.

3. In what year did the government award Nevil Shute and a governmental department contracts to make rigid aircraft called zeppelins?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1918.

4. What name refers to a fictional Utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet featured in the book "Lost Horizon"?
(a) Alcatraz.
(b) Shangri-La.
(c) Atlantis.
(d) Babylon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Whose poem written for his son and containing many Christian references did Mamet read while at Camp Kawaga?

3. What is a way the government generates revenues and which are based on proportions of earnings which is considered fair, according to Mamet?

4. According to Mamet in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse, justice was seen by the Right as meaning what?

5. When was the NAACP formed?

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