PAC 2024 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
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PAC 2024 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
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 - ANSWERSTrue
Postman (in Amusing Ourselves to Death) argues the Lincoln-Douglas debates were unsophistica...
PAC 2024 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
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 - ANSWERSTrue
Postman (in Amusing Ourselves to Death) argues the Lincoln-Douglas debates were unsophisticated
compared to modern political rhetoric. T/F - ANSWERSFalse
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 - ANSWERSTrue
Postman believes the contemporary American culture is more like what Orwell described in 1984. T/f -
ANSWERSFalse
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 - ANSWERSTrue
Cultures based on the written word tend to value argument and reason, while cultures built around
visual communication value appearance and emotion. t/f - ANSWERSTrue
The transition to a visual culture went in this order:
Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death) believes television favors action and movement, so it struggles to
portray thinking. t/f - ANSWERSTrue
Postman (Amusing Ourselves...) sees tv news as the one part of television that has largely remained
factual and informative. t/f - ANSWERSFalse
,Postman (Amusing Ourselves...) thinks religion, especially Christianity, is hard, doctrinal, and complex,
which makes it a poor fit for tv portrayals. t/f - ANSWERSTrue
Politicians are essentially sold as products in a television culture. They veer toward slogans and simplicity
and away from complexity and nuance t/f - ANSWERSTrue
TV, for all its flaws, at least adequately prepares voters as they attempt to hold politicians responsible for
their actions. t/f - ANSWERSFalse
Television has had a significant impact on education by conditioning students to require entertainment in
the classroom--according to Postman (Amusing Ourselves...) t/f - ANSWERSFalse
Wilson (The New Freedom) argues that America's attachment to its founding documents is one of its
strengths. t/f - ANSWERSFalse
For progressives, liberty, not equality, appears to be the key political value. t/f - ANSWERSFalse
Roosevelt ("State of the Union Message...") sees rights in largely economic, as opposed to legal, terms t/f
- ANSWERSFalse
Wilson argues that constitutional limits on the powers of the presidency must be rigidly adhered to. t/f -
ANSWERSFalse
In his 2nd Inaugural Address, Reagan shows a significant disconnect between himself and America's
Founders. t/f - ANSWERSFalse
Reagan emphasizes governmental solutions to the most significant problems that confront us. t/f -
ANSWERSFalse
For Russell Kirk and his Ten Conservative Principles, human nature is a constant, unchanging aspect of
political reality. t/f - ANSWERSTrue
, Russell Kirk, in his Ten Conservative Principles, resists change of all sorts. t/f - ANSWERSFalse
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 - ANSWERSTrue
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 - ANSWERSFalse
The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise in the Dred Scott case. t/f -
ANSWERSFalse
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 - ANSWERSTrue
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 - ANSWERSFalse
King saw white Christians as an asset in his struggle. t/f - ANSWERSFalse
King believed laws could be just on their face but still be applied unjustly. t/f - ANSWERSTrue
King (in "Letter from a Birmingham Jail") believed that...
A. white Christians have been a tremendous help in his struggles for equality.
B.all laws must be obeyed regardless of their justice.
C. African Americans should be patient and wait for the system to change.
D. the church should shape culture as opposed to reflecting culture.
E. None of the above are correct. - ANSWERSD. the church should shape culture as opposed to reflecting
culture.
In King's "Letter," he argues that to be just, laws must...
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