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

2. In Chapter 17: Puritans, Mamet writes that liberals apply what to all people and causes?
(a) Monetary equivalency.
(b) Racial equivalency.
(c) Moral equivalency.
(d) Educational equivalency.

3. In Chapter 26: Feminism, Mamet claims that the weakening of what will eventually destroy the family which is essential for a successful society?
(a) Conservatism.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Monogamy.

4. Mamet writes in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?" that buying into the "change" that Obama has promised will cause the descent of the nation into what?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Godlessness.
(d) Anarchy.

5. 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?
(a) Sarah Palin.
(b) Barack Obama.
(c) George W. Bush.
(d) Howard Stern.

Short Answer 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?

2. Karl Marx was quoted for saying that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his" what?

3. Mamet's father only finished how many years of community college before he bluffed his way into law school?

4. The Ashkenazi Jews were from where?

5. In Chapter 3: Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator, Mamet writes that culture predates what?

(see the answer key)

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