CIV 201 midterm MC review

Which university is David Brooks describing?

Harvard

Yale

Princeton

Miami

Princeton

T/F: According to Yingling, the vice of the old is thatthey demand too much from the youth.

False

T/F: According to Brooks, college is just one step in the continual stairway of advancement for “The Organization Kid”

True

According to Yingling, the demands students put on themselves come from

Their parents

Their peers

The job market

All of the above

All of the above

T/F: According to Berlin, political judgement is formed strictly through political science

False

T/F: According to Berlin, statesmen (whether wicked or virtuous) have a capacity called practical wisdom

True

According to Arendt, when does a crisis become a disaster?

When an authority says it’s a disaster

When tradition says it’s a disaster

When we respond to it with prejudices

None of the above

When we respond to it with prejudices

What age range is Alcibaides in Alcibaides I?

18-25

26-35

36-50

50-75

18-25

What was Alcibaides not willing to learn?

How to wrestle

How to write and read

How to play the lyre

How to play the aulos

How to play the aulos

T/F: Socrates did not convince Alcibaides that he was ignorant and should not enter politics

False

T/F: Socrates claims that he is the wisest man in Athens

False

What character trait made Socrates unpopular in the City?

His looks

His bare feet

His constant questioning

None of the above

His constant questioning

What were the two official charges against Socrates?

Impiety and corrupting the youth

Treason against the city and teaching for money

Refusing to fight and destroying sacred statues

Infidelity

Impiety and corrupting the youth

What did Socrates think his punishment should be?

He would be exiled

He would have to stop philosophizing

Free meals and a small fine

None of the above

Free meals and a small fine

According to Aristotle, the city (or state) exists:

by virtue of its creation by the gods

by consent, since all are naturally equal

by nature

by historical process, since nature can provide no standard for men

by nature

T/F: Aristotle says that men (humans) are not political animals by nature

False

For Aristotle, what feature makes us different from other animals?

that we stand on two feet

that we have opposable thumbs

that we live in a city

that we can talk and reason with one another

that we can talk and reason with one another

How does Aristotle define the citizen?

one who chooses to belong to the city

one who fights with his own arms

one who participates in an office involving deliberation or decision

one who is natural-born in the city

one who participates in an office involving deliberation or decision

Aristotle says correct regimes (or governments or constitutions) are those that:

secure the highest level of wealth or prosperity

seek the common advantage or common good

follow the laws in everything, whatever the laws might be

insure the advantage of the rulers

seek the common advantage or common good

According to the Declaration of Independence,

Men are created equal and justly governed only by their consent

The Americans are children to the British mother and should obey her

The king should open his breast to liberal thought and welcome back loyal Americans

All of the above

Men are created equal and justly governed only by their consent

In the Declaration, acts of Parliament to which the colonist are said to be subject are described as:

against natural law

foreign to the constitution and unacknowledged by the laws

usurpations by Parliament to the king’s rightful authority

disadvantageous to the colonies and so subject to nullification

foreign to the constitution and unacknowledged by the laws

What incident took place that prompted Lincoln to give his “Lyceum Address”?

the American flag was burned

the Constitution was being publicly ripped up

a black man was captured and burned

none of the above

a black man was captured and burned

T/F: Abraham Lincoln claims the rise of “mob law” demonstrates that there is no point in continuing our political institutions

False

What kind of government does Montesquieu discuss

Republican

Monarchial

Despotic

All of the above

All of the above

What is the principle of a despotic government?

virtue

honor

fear

none of the above

fear