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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 was the result on the chicken and beef in "No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch"?
2. What is Williams discussing in her essay, "The Killing Game"?
3. What does Singer say about the money would be spent on, that is not given to helping the poor in "The Singer Solution to World Poverty"?
4. What happened to Johnny's assailant in "Who Shot Johnny?"?
5. Who outlined the exception to the first amendment in "Shouting Fire!"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasoning does Oliver Wendell Holmes give for not shouting fire in a crowded theater in the essay "Shouting Fire!"?
2. What does Updike say about the female body in "The Disposable Rocket"?
3. Why did Till's mother want his coffin to remain open in the essay "Exquisite Corpse"?
4. What does Williams say about the reasons hunters give for hunting in the essay "The Killing Game"?
5. What does Convoy finally accept at the end of his essay "Think About It"?
6. What does Updike say about the male body in "The Disposable Rocket"?
7. What is utilitarianism according to Singer in "The Singer Solution to World Poverty"?
8. How does Halberstam see America responding to war in the essay "Who We Are"?
9. Why is the Quechan horse still intact, unlike the other archaeological monuments in "The Stone Horse" by Barry Lopez?
10. What was the significance of Till's photos circulating and none of Byrd's in "Exquisite Corpse"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
"Exquisite Corpse," by Ashraf Rushdy discusses the photography of African Americans that had been lynched. If James Byrd's lynching had been photographed, how would the country's reaction have compared to the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955?
Essay Topic 2
Considering "The Telephone" and "Mail," compare and contrast the benefits of life without the invention of both the telephone and e-mail. How do you think our society would be different without technological advances like cell phones or e-mail?
Essay Topic 3
Think about "Hair" by Marcia Aldrich. Do you agree or disagree that "hair, is like life--there is no need to be bound by the past because it can always be changed".
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