Who's Who
Connections Between Texts
Life Before the Midterm
Miscellaneous
Logistics of the Exam
100

Which 1960s Vatican work defines human dignity as the written by God?


What is Gaudium et Spes?

100

How does Rachel Carson bring human knowledge and technology into her discussion of the sea?


What are the history of human migration and the reliance on instruments of navigation?

100

If you were to make a list of critiques to Enlightenment’s faith in Reason, what would you include and why?


What are subjectivity, detached from others, reliance on relativism, subject to technological and human error?

100

Which 1930s Latin American author viewed the diversity of humanity as both scientifically but culturally advantageous?


Who is José Vasconcellos?

100

How long should each identification answer be?

What is 3-4 sentences?

200

What character in “Schindler’s List” viewed Hitler’s The Final Solution as a natural development of wartime stress?


Who is Amon Goeth?

200

In what ways does Thomas Kuhn bring the development of human knowledge into his discussion of science?


What is the process of defining (and refining) scientific knowledge?

200

What are some of the ways that Rousseau believes institutions are corrupted over time?

What are the creation of private property, the corruption of institutions, the comparison of material wealth, and the creation of power structures?

200

This Harvard University psychologist considered the decision making of women motivated largely by care and relationships to others?

Who is Carol Gilligan?

200

How long should each short essay answer be?

What is 1-2 pages?

300

Rachel Carson reviewed the return to which location in the world natural as a natural development in human life?


What is the Sea?

300

What challenges to assimilating into American life did Jewish women in New York face at the turn of the century?


What are sexism, racism, religious intolerance, culture shock, sexual violence, threat of enslavement, cultural differences, and familial pressure?

300

Who is Sophia Auld in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?


What is the person who taught Douglass to read?

300

In what ways does Vasconcellos believe society and culture have failed to advance humanity?


What are racism, eugenics, and colonialism?

300

How long should each long essay answer be?

What is 3-4 pages?

400

This Russian author proposed a nihilistic viewpoint that challenged the cleanliness, reason, and order of a South London exhibition that championed modernity


Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?

400

What shared characteristics and experiences does Vasconcellos believe connect people to each other?


What are commonly experienced life events, the process of learning, cross-cultural exchange, and desire to live better lives through the taming of nature?

400

What is the definition of The Enlightenment?

What is the Age of Reason, the reliance on the five senses, the examination of pure logic, and the broadening of human knowledge beyond the Divine?

400

In what ways does the Underground Man act with  apathy?

What are the encounter with the police officer, the party with school acquaintances, and the confrontation with Liza?

400

Are the IDs cumulative or inclusive of material from after the midterm?

What is after the midterm?

500

Which 1920s British novel begins with a scene that demonstrates how others interpret the same event differently?


What is Mrs Dalloway?

500

Name two moments in the course where the Church reasserted itself in the wake of the Enlightenment and technology.


What are the Industrial Revoultion and the Cold War?

500

How does Rerum Novarum critique the communist belief in workers' revolution?

What is the natural human inclination of private property?

500

What is the ring at the end of "Schindler’s List" intended to symbolize?


What is "whoever saves one life saves the world entire"?
500

Are the essays questions cumulative or inclusive of material after the midterm?

What is inclusive of material after the midterm?