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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was David Mamet born?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1952.

3. Mamet writes in Chapter 10: Milton Friedman Explained that the advantage that free enterprise has over the state is that it can what?
(a) Change prices and values easier.
(b) It can skirt regulations easier.
(c) More easily and effectively correct itself.
(d) It can advertise.

4. In Chapter 13: Maxwell Street, Mamet writes that although the Constitution gives the power to declare war to the Congress, who declared war on Japan and then got Congress' approval?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

5. In Chapter 8: The Red Sea, Mamet writes that perhaps the parting of the Red Sea did not symbolize the unity of mankind; rather, it may have been intended to do what?
(a) Show it's vulnerability.
(b) Revive it's spirit.
(c) Divide and conquer.
(d) Distinguish its diversity.

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

3. Who espoused the concept that "change" itself was a solution in the 2008 Presidential election, according to David Mamet?

4. In Chapter 5: Lost Horizon, Mamet writes that there is a stampede of unskilled individuals into what schools because it is an acceptable pursuit and it is not "work" per se?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mamet describe the differences between Israel, West Germany and East Germany in Chapter 14: R100? How does this relate to American finance?

2. What does Mamet claim would be the outcome in Iran if people expressed freedom of thought in Chapter 17: Puritans?

3. What does Mamet say of the liberal concern for the victim in Chapter 16: The Victim?

4. How is Nevil Shute introduced in Chapter 14: R100? What was Shute contracted to make?

5. What warning did Nevil Shute give to the government in Chapter 14: R100? How was it received?

6. How does Mamet describe his former political leanings in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse?

7. How does Mamet describe Homeland Security in Chapter 20: Cabinet Spiritualism and the Car Czar?

8. How does Mamet relate liberalism, big government and nature in Chapter 18: The Noble Savage?

9. How does Mamet describe the paradox of liberal thought in Chapter 1: The Political Impulse?

10. What does Mamet claim is the promise of the government in Chapter 9: Chicago?

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