PAC FINAL EXAM SIMS CEDARVILLE

PAC FINAL EXAM SIMS CEDARVILLE

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Postman, in Amusing Ourselves to Death, believes the dominant mode of communication (oral, written, or visual) has a dramatic influence on how the culture perceives truth and authority. T/f - ANSWER-True

Cultures based on the written word tend to value argument and reason, while cultures built around visual communication value appearance and emotion. t/f - ANSWER-True

The transition to a visual culture went in this order:

books/text-->photograph-->radio-->television/image t/f - ANSWER-False

Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death) believes television favors action and movement, so it struggles to portray thinking. t/f - ANSWER-True

Postman (Amusing Ourselves...) sees tv news as the one part of television that has largely remained factual and informative. t/f - ANSWER-False

Postman argues (in Amusing Ourselves to Death) tv is not just an influence on our culture, but in some ways IS our culture. T/F - ANSWER-True

Postman (in Amusing Ourselves to Death) argues the Lincoln-Douglas debates were unsophisticated compared to modern political rhetoric. T/F - ANSWER-False

Postman (in Amusing Ourselves to Death) believes the "Peek-a-Boo" culture really began with the inventions of the photograph and the telegraph. T/F - ANSWER-True

Postman believes the contemporary American culture is more like what Orwell described in 1984. T/f - ANSWER-False

Postman (Amusing Ourselves...) thinks religion, especially Christianity, is hard, doctrinal, and complex, which makes it a poor fit for tv portrayals. t/f - ANSWER-True

Politicians are essentially sold as products in a television culture. They veer toward slogans and simplicity and away from complexity and nuance t/f - ANSWER-True

TV, for all its flaws, at least adequately prepares voters as they attempt to hold politicians responsible for their actions. t/f - ANSWER-False

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Television has had a significant impact on education by conditioning students to require entertainment in the classroom--according to Postman (Amusing Ourselves...) t/f - ANSWER-False

Wilson (The New Freedom) argues that America's attachment to its founding documents is one of its strengths. t/f - ANSWER-False

For progressives, liberty, not equality, appears to be the key political value. t/f - ANSWER-False

Roosevelt ("State of the Union Message...") sees rights in largely economic, as opposed to legal, terms t/f - ANSWER-False

Wilson argues that constitutional limits on the powers of the presidency must be rigidly adhered to. t/f - ANSWER-False

In his 2nd Inaugural Address, Reagan shows a significant disconnect between himself and America's Founders. t/f - ANSWER-False

Reagan emphasizes governmental solutions to the most significant problems that confront us. t/f - ANSWER-False

For Russell Kirk and his Ten Conservative Principles, human nature is a constant, unchanging aspect of political reality. t/f - ANSWER-True

Russell Kirk, in his Ten Conservative Principles, resists change of all sorts. t/f - ANSWER-False

In Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty, he attempts to equate individual and governmental morality, thereby arguing what is immoral for one ought to be immoral for the other. t/f - ANSWER-True

Murray Rothbard, in For a New Liberty, thinks ALL organizations are coercive, so governments are not meaningfully different from corporations or other entities. t/f - ANSWER-False

The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise in the Dred Scott case. t/f - ANSWER-False

According to Abraham Lincoln in his Dred Scott speech, the Declaration of Independence did not intend to declare each and every person free in every respect at that time, but rather to establish a principle of freedom - ANSWER-True

The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision ruled that African Americans were included in the Declaration of Independence and that the Founders intended them to become citizens.t/f - ANSWER-False 2 / 3

King saw white Christians as an asset in his struggle. t/f - ANSWER-False

King believed laws could be just on their face but still be applied unjustly. t/f - ANSWER- True

King (in "Letter from a Birmingham Jail") believed that...

• white Christians have been a tremendous help in his struggles for equality.

B.all laws must be obeyed regardless of their justice.

• African Americans should be patient and wait for the system to change.
• the church should shape culture as opposed to reflecting culture.
• None of the above are correct. - ANSWER-D. the church should shape culture as

opposed to reflecting culture.

In King's "Letter," he argues that to be just, laws must...

• apply to everyone equally.
• be made using the input of people potentially affected.
• not degrade human dignity.
• all of the above - ANSWER-d. all of the above

In Lee v. Weisman, the Supreme Court determined that ______ are _____ because

_____.

• school-sponsored graduation prayers; unconstitutional; they are psychologically

coercive

• moments of silence; constitutional; there is no coercion involved
• segregated schools; inherently unequal; of the psychological stigma involved
• laws with a secular purpose; constitutional; there is not a solely religious motivation -

ANSWER-a. school-sponsored graduation prayers; unconstitutional; they are psychologically coercive

Jefferson ("Letter to the Danbury Baptists") thinks that government and religion must work together for the good of the country. t/f - ANSWER-false

In Lee v. Weisman, the Supreme Court determined that prayer in a public school graduation ceremony violates the US Constitution's Establishment Clause. t/f - ANSWER-true

Thomas Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists claims that government can regulate religious beliefs, but not actions. t/f - ANSWER-false

Mill (On Liberty) thinks that if even one person holds a contrary opinion, the majority should not coerce that person to change their mind or suppress their freedom of speech. t/f - ANSWER-true

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