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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the protagonist of the novel "Lost Horizon"?
(a) Hugh Conway.
(b) Ralph Buckingham.
(c) Albert Yonders.
(d) Jack Jenkins.

2. When was Jane Fonda born?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1924.

3. 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?
(a) Moving deep into the woods.
(b) Extending the governments powers.
(c) Limiting the government's powers.
(d) Overthrowing the government.

4. Who wrote the novel "Lost Horizon"?
(a) Chadwick Roberts.
(b) Edmund King.
(c) James Hilton.
(d) Randall Morris.

5. 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) Their hands would be cut off.
(b) They would be forced to become muslims.
(c) They would be asked to leave.
(d) They would be beheaded.

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

7. What does Mamet claim the Arabs want in regard to the State of Israel in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?
(a) To live in peace with the Jews.
(b) A buffer zone along the border.
(c) To destroy Israel and claim the land.
(d) Free entry in and out of Israel.

8. When was the NAACP formed?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1888.

9. Along with other celebrities, Jane Fonda supported what occupation in 1969 which was intended to call attention to Native American issues?
(a) The Bull Run occupation.
(b) The Mt. Rainer occupation.
(c) The Alcatraz Island occupation.
(d) The Yosemite Valley occupation.

10. Liberals view themselves as compassionate and free-thinking but to Mamet they are what?
(a) Narrow and biased.
(b) Arrogant and stubborn.
(c) Brainwashed and lazy.
(d) Racist and ignorant.

11. What does Mamet claim the Jews of the State of Israel want in Chapter 12: The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor?
(a) To take over more land.
(b) To rely on the might of the U.S.
(c) To provoke the Palestinians.
(d) To protect their borders and live in peace.

12. What refers to a prohibition or interdiction of anything; exclusion from use or practice?
(a) Bounty.
(b) Taboo.
(c) Embargo.
(d) Tariff.

13. According to Mamet, the Left ascribes to a sharing of wealth but fails to answer what fundamental question?
(a) What true wealth is.
(b) Where the wealth came from.
(c) What currency is the strongest.
(d) How important wealth is.

14. Obama's campaign of "hope" and "change" was heralded as what, according to Mamet in Chapter 6: The Music Man?
(a) The end of the world.
(b) The new New Deal.
(c) Salvation.
(d) The start or World War III.

15. Where was Vanessa Redgrave born?
(a) London, England.
(b) Rome, Italy.
(c) Warsaw, Poland.
(d) Paris, France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What actor was Jane Fonda's father?

2. Who was the Republican candidate for President in the 2008 election?

3. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet claims that the Socialist vision of society, of taking care of the weak and downtrodden, only serves to do what?

4. When did the term Homeland Security first arise, following a reorganization of many U.S. government agencies?

5. Who does Mamet describe as having actually convinced a portion of the public that they could perform magic and miracles in the 19th century?

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