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JAMES STONER POLI SCI 1001 FINAL EXAM (PART 1)
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JAMES STONER POLI SCI 1001 FINAL EXAM (PART 1)Bloom writes: "There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every
student entering the university beleives, or says he beleives,..."
A. "that life is a party."
B. "that truth is relative."
C. "in the brotherhood of man."
D. "that money is the root of all evil." - Answers- B. "that truth is relative."
What does Bloom tell us about "strong prejudices"?
A. They are always bad.
B. It is futile to try to educate anyone to abandon them.
C. We need to acquire more such prejudices as we go through life.
D. They are necessary, at least at first, as visions about the way things are. - Answers-
D. They are necessary, at least at first, as visions about the way things are.
According to Bloom, American students-- unlike European students--typically come to
college without immersion in a national literature, but in the past they tended at least to
know
A. Shakespeare and Milton.
B. the works of John Dewey.
C. The Bible and the Declaration of Independence.
D. Computer skills and social networking protocols. - Answers- C. The Bible and the
Declaration of Independence.
According to Bloom, political science is different from the other social sciences because
A. Its origins go back to Greek antiquity.
B. It looks war in the face.
C. It has a philosophic branch.
D. ALL of the above - Answers- D. ALL of the above
Why does Shelby Steele start by speaking about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal?
A. To show that sex discrimination has replaced race discrimination as a public concern
B. To show how moral authority has changed in America since the 1950's
C. To lament that President Clinton's civil rights achievements were undone by the
scandal
D. ALL of the above - Answers- B. To show how moral authority has changed in
America since the 1950's
What does Shelby Steele say about what he calls "white guilt"?
, A. That it arises from whites' recognition of the wrongs done by racism
B. That it is aware of white America's failure to be faithful to American ideals
C. That is is "quite literally the same thing as black power," because the "black power"
movement filled a vacuum of moral authority
D. ALL of the above - Answers- D. ALL of the above
What is the "new consciousness" Steele writes about?
A. A replacement of earnest public discourse with satirical comedy
B. A view that race is irrelevant to individual responsibility once freedom is achieved
C. A view that racism is endemic and informs all the structures of society
D. ALL of the above - Answers- C. A view that racism is endemic and informs all the
structures of society
How does Shelby Steele contrast (i) black achievement in entertainment and sport with
(ii) black achievement in school?
A. (i) won by skill development, innovation, relentless practice / (ii) dependent on white
guilt
B. (i) achieved by genetic good fortune / (ii) frustrated by white racism
C. (i) illusory, granted as an indulgence by whites / (ii) mismeasured by society
D. Both depend on the skillful use of freedom - Answers- A. (i) won by skill
development, innovation, relentless practice / (ii) dependent on white guilt
According to Steele, the underlying cause of the whole counterculture movement of the
sixties was
A. The philosophy of Nietzsche and the crisis of relativism
B. The collapse of moral authority and the vacuum created by white guilt
C. The creative flowering of hitherto repressed personal genius
D. The success of civil rights, which spawned imitation of the civil rights movement -
Answers- B. The collapse of moral authority and the vacuum created by white guilt
Bloom tells us that the crisis of liberal education is that
A. The "hard sciences" make absurd claims about the usefulness of their results in fields
such as medicine, physics, and so forth.
B. There is no vision of the whole that unites higher education.
C. Universities are desperately underfunded
D. Universities do not adequately prepare students for the workforce. - Answers- B.
There is no vision of the whole that unites higher education.
What does Bloom identify as the three great divisions of knowledge within the modern
university?
A. Studies of the past, studies of the present, attempts to predict the future
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