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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 36: Bumper Stickers, Mamet claims that old bumper stickers like "War Is Not the Answer," gave the false impression that there is only a choice between death and what?
(a) Hope.
(b) Struggle.
(c) Life.
(d) Surrender.

2. Mamet writes in Chapter 31: Breatharian that government did not invent what nor can it oversee it effectively?
(a) The automobile industry.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) Religion.
(d) The film industry.

3. Mamet writes that marriage is a naturally evolved response to the primordial urge for what?
(a) Biological urges.
(b) Monogamy.
(c) Religion.
(d) Finance.

4. According to Mamet, the United Nations destroyed the image of America by identifying the nation as what?
(a) Lazy.
(b) The number one criminal of the world.
(c) Greedy.
(d) Not concerned with other countries.

5. What book did David Mamet write about filmmaking?
(a) On Directing Film.
(b) All About Film and Filmmaking.
(c) Directing the Future.
(d) Films for Dummies.

6. When was Al Sharpton born?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1938.

7. What book by Sarah Palin has sold more than two million copies?
(a) How to Gut a Moose.
(b) Denali and Me.
(c) Russia is Coming.
(d) Going Rogue.

8. Mamet claims in Chapter 31: Breatharian, that government intervention serves to do what?
(a) Complicate simple tasks.
(b) Advance the understandings of man.
(c) Retard the advancement of man.
(d) Create regulations and taxes.

9. Who did David Mamet claim was a brilliant actress and comedienne but failed to meet the standards of the feminists of her day in Chapter 26: Feminism?
(a) Lucille Ball.
(b) Jane Fonda.
(c) Marilyn Monroe.
(d) Susan Sarandon.

10. What was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955?
(a) The Society of Workers.
(b) The Federation of North American Workers.
(c) The Teamsters.
(d) The Congress of Industrial Organizations.

11. What does Mamet define as the practice of indicting and assaulting others for their opinions or for sometimes just stating the truth in Chapter 24: Arrested Development?
(a) Party politics.
(b) Persecution politics.
(c) Blind politics.
(d) Identity politics.

12. Freedom of speech in the United States is protected by what Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
(a) The First Amendment.
(b) The Second Amendment.
(c) The Fith Amendment.
(d) The Eighth Amendment.

13. Where was Karl Marx born?
(a) Madrid, Spain.
(b) London, England.
(c) Prague, Czech Republic.
(d) Trier, Kingdom of Prussia.

14. 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) Barack Obama.
(b) George W. Bush.
(c) Howard Stern.
(d) Sarah Palin.

15. Mamet writes that he did not serve in the military for what reason in Chapter 37: Late Revelations?
(a) He was given a deferment.
(b) He moved to Mexico.
(c) He was wealthy.
(d) He moved to Canada.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book is Karl Marx most well-known for writing?

2. Mamet writes in Chapter 34: Hope and Change, that a democracy doesn't elect the best people in the country for what reason?

3. Who headed a radical group that occupied Columbia University and insisted that he was speaking for the student body but most students didn't support him?

4. Dred Scott v. Sandford was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants, whether or not they were slaves) could never be what?

5. When was Sarah Palin born?

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