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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is defined as the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.?

2. What is defined as existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought?

3. Mamet claims in Chapter 21: Rumpelstiltskin that the impact of liberal policies will result in what?

4. In Chapter 23: Greed, Mamet writes that greed is a sin according to what?

5. In what year did Sarah Palin become mayor of Wasilla, Alaska?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the Ashkenazi Jews described in Chapter 27: The Ashkenazis? How did Mamet's grandparents succeed in America?

2. How does Mamet describe the internal sources of America's destruction in Chapter 22: My Father, Al Sharpton, and the Designated Criminal? What external sources does he describe?

3. How does Mamet relate liberals to Rumpelstiltskin?

4. How does Mamet relate the benefits of working on a movie set in Chapter 38: Who Does One Think He Is?

5. From what did the institution of marriage arise, according to Mamet in Chapter 30: Naturally Evolved Institutions?

6. What importance does Mamet lay on the foundation of family in Chapter 29: The Family?

7. What does Mamet assert to be the reason for America's success in Chapter 39: The Secret Knowledge? What threatens that success to Mamet?

8. What does Mamet write about his own military experience in Chapter 37: Late Revelations?

9. How does Mamet relate demagoguery to the Obama campaign in Chapter 33: Self-Evident Truth?

10. How does Mamet relate the metaphor of the street sweeper to Marxism in Chapter 32: The Street Sweeper and the Surgeon, or Marxism Examined?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the work of Franklin D. Roosevelt. How does Mamet equate Roosevelt's successes as the successes of big government?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the book "Lost Horizon" and the correlation between the protagonist and liberal youth today. Why does Mamet compare the two?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the private and public sectors and the evolution of American politics, governmental control and finance. How has the government's role changed in the financial world in the past 100 years?

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