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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mamet claim the political impulse originated from in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse?
(a) A way to convey one's perspective.
(b) Ancient Roman times.
(c) A natural urge to bring order to social relations.
(d) A desire to rule lower classes.

3. The United States Presidential election of 2008 was numbered what quadrennial presidential election?
(a) 56th.
(b) 29th.
(c) 68th.
(d) 44th.

4. What thriving industry did California tax out of the state, according to Mamet in Chapter 14: R100?
(a) Recreation.
(b) Manufacturing.
(c) The film industry.
(d) Scientific research.

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

6. In Chapter 15: The Intelligent Person's Guide to Socialism and Anti-Semitism, Mamet writes that it is difficult to understand why aid is given to Palestine when some of the money is funneled to terrorists whose main goal is to kill whom?
(a) Mexicans.
(b) Americans.
(c) Canadians.
(d) Israelis.

7. Who was the Democratic candidate in the 2008 Presidential election?
(a) John McCain.
(b) Joe Biden.
(c) Barack Obama.
(d) Sarah Palin.

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

9. 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?
(a) "The Holocaust".
(b) "The Spanish Inquisition".
(c) "The Scourge of Humanity".
(d) "The Rape of Jenin".

10. What refers to a series of four coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States?
(a) 12/17 attacks.
(b) Bin Laden attacks.
(c) 9/11 attacks.
(d) 4/4 attacks.

11. In Chapter 16: The Victim, Mamet writes that the liberal concern for the "victim" is merely an attempt to do what?
(a) Attain power and fame.
(b) Be martyrs.
(c) Evoke a religious, spiritual feeling.
(d) Raise money.

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

13. Who was the Republican candidate for President in the 2008 election?
(a) Barack Obama.
(b) Sarah Palin.
(c) John McCain.
(d) Joe Biden.

14. Mamet claims in Chapter 18: The Noble Savage that Conservatives believe in ______ which is not a fantasy and which is a proven success.
(a) The free market.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Christianity.
(d) The stock market.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mamet claim brought about the Car Czar in the Obama administration in Chapter 20: Cabinet Spiritualism and the Car Czar?

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

3. Mamet writes in Chapter 11: What is "Diversity?" that a liberal education teaches children to dismantle and disparage what?

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

5. Who is the con man in the play "The Music Man"?

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