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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 prohibited in the first amendment?
2. What is Updike comparing in "The Disposable Rocket"?
3. Whose rights does Hearne compare to that of humans in "What's Wrong With Animal Rights?"?
4. What is the goal of utilitarianism according to Singer in "The Singer Solution to World Poverty"?
5. 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"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the Quechan horse still intact, unlike the other archaeological monuments in "The Stone Horse" by Barry Lopez?
2. Describe Convoy's realization about 'sixths' in "Think About It."
3. What does Updike say about the female body in "The Disposable Rocket"?
4. How does Halberstam see America responding to war in the essay "Who We Are"?
5. Describe what Queenan thinks about American universities in "Matriculation Fixation"."
6. Describe what Berry's issue with the American people is in "In Distrust of Movements."
7. Explain Hearne's reasons for the differences of human rights to those of a dog in the essay "What's Wrong With Animal Rights"?
8. What is utilitarianism according to Singer in "The Singer Solution to World Poverty"?
9. What was the significance of Till's photos circulating and none of Byrd's in "Exquisite Corpse"?
10. What does Updike say about the male body in "The Disposable Rocket"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the difference between a top-tier university and what Queenan calls a "middling" university and why people prefer a top-tier school.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the common reason that Wills mentions in "The Dramaturgy of Death" that people commit suicide.
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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