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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Public Sphere: In Distrust of Movements, Think About It, and Shouting Fire!.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What magazine is mentioned having a cartoon that is equivalent to shouting fire in "Shouting Fire!"?
(a) Hustler.
(b) Rolling Stone.
(c) Spin.
(d) Cosmoplolitan.

2. What does Conroy realize after meeting with Judge Hand in "Think About It"?
(a) That the FBI helps both Judge Douglas and Hand.
(b) That Judge Hand hates the FBI.
(c) Some issues are entirely too complicated to be exhausted over by multiple debates and arguments.
(d) That Judge Douglas is corrupt.

3. What case do Conroy and Douglas discuss in "Think About It"?
(a) The Bay of Pigs.
(b) The 9/11 attack.
(c) The Robert-Grealy case .
(d) The Dennis Case that dealt with the first amendment.

4. What did McPhee notice about his childhood gift?
(a) The elegant and steady way it always returned to him.
(b) The color.
(c) How heavy it was.
(d) That it was expensive.

5. What is the ultimate solution to the type of death discussed in "Heaven and Nature"?
(a) Sex.
(b) A house.
(c) Money.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling does Frazier seem to take about society's lack of idleness in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

2. What issue is Frazier discussing about the modern world in the essay "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

3. What is the man mentioned being tried for during World War I in "Shouting Fire!"?

4. What gift did McPhee's mom give him?

5. What is prohibited in the first amendment?

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