EDHE 105 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
T/F: The "scissors game" played on the first day of class demonstrated the importance
of observation and persistence in the college experience. - Answers -true
T/F: Academic honesty only requires that I don't cheat when giving my answers. If
someone uses my answers for their purposes, that does not mean that I cheated. -
Answers -false
T/F: Studies show that students who sit closer to the front of class simply make better
grades. - Answers -true
T/F: Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted, is a professor in the University of Mississippi
English department and works diligently to find housing for homeless students in
Oxford. - Answers -false
T/F: Pulling all-nighters is inevitable in college. If you study all night the night before a
test, you actually will do better on the test because of all of the studying. - Answers -
false
T/F: Fall convocation is a formal welcome to the University of Mississippi and
presentation of all academic schools and colleges; at Convocation, students formally
become student members of the University community. - Answers -true
T/F: The gift given to every freshman at convocation was a signed copy of the
University Creed by the chancellor. It will serve as inspiration studied in the middle of a
study session. - Answers -false
T/F: In the A Game, Ken Sufka describes a "recency effect" that enables a student to
recall the last thing studied better than the information studied in the middle of a study
session. - Answers -true
T/F: In 1962, James Meredith was the first African-American student to enter the
University of Mississippi and was under the protection of U.S. Marshals during his time
as a student at Ole Miss. - Answers -true
T/F: Rebel Run is a community wide marathon that takes place in streets of Oxford
every year. - Answers -false
T/F: The Walk of Champions in the Grove commemorates the important success of
each of the chancellors at the University of Mississippi. - Answers -false
T/F: Plagiarism is the act of using the words of another without giving the originator
credit. - Answers -true
, T/F: The Cornell Note Making system requires a student to record lectures on a
recorder or their phone so they can replayed again later - Answers -false
T/F: There is a University Creed Book for students to sign as a symbol of their voluntary
membership in our community and willingness to uphold the tenets and shared values
stated in the creed. - Answers -true
T/F: There is no such thing as implicit bias. Every person knows, understands, and is
aware when they are discriminating against a particular person or group of people. -
Answers -false
T/F: Meeting with fellow students from class in groups for a meal at a local restaurant
enables students to practice "soft skills" of conversing with strangers and learning how
to support the local economy. It also may serve to turn classmates into friends. -
Answers -true
T/F: Chancellor Sparks steered the University of Mississippi through World War II.
There was a decreasing enrollment and many professors were called away in service to
their country. Chancellor Sparks is recognized for his contributions during that time in a
stained glass window in Ventress Hall. - Answers -false
T/F: The chair of the Academic Discipline Committee is a doctor from the Ole Miss
medical school in Jackson. - Answers -false
T/F: The A Game suggests that there are three levels of learning in Bloom's Taxonomy
of Learning: factual, application, and conceptual. - Answers -true
T/F: The Professional Writing Minor offers a minor made up of 18 credit hours in
courses that prepare students of all disciplines for the workplace. - Answers -true
Handing in a paper that is written by someone else is a form of . . . - Answers -
academic dishonesty
The first print appearance of the . . . cheer surfaced in a 1926 Mississippian. In 1931 an
Ole Miss professor wrote a spirited song titled "Ole Miss" whose chorus included
elements of the cheer. One historian connects the cheer to a World War II whose
chorus battlecry. Virginia Tech's Regimental Band quite possibly served as the origin of
the cheer. - Answers -Hotty Toddy
Meeting with my . . . during office hours allows me a chance to ask questions from
class, follow up on topics of interest, demonstrate my interest in the class, find out more
about the faculty member and share more of who I am and what my circumstances are
so that they know me as well as my work product if I every need to requires an
academic recommendation from them. - Answers -professors
T/F: The "scissors game" played on the first day of class demonstrated the importance
of observation and persistence in the college experience. - Answers -true
T/F: Academic honesty only requires that I don't cheat when giving my answers. If
someone uses my answers for their purposes, that does not mean that I cheated. -
Answers -false
T/F: Studies show that students who sit closer to the front of class simply make better
grades. - Answers -true
T/F: Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted, is a professor in the University of Mississippi
English department and works diligently to find housing for homeless students in
Oxford. - Answers -false
T/F: Pulling all-nighters is inevitable in college. If you study all night the night before a
test, you actually will do better on the test because of all of the studying. - Answers -
false
T/F: Fall convocation is a formal welcome to the University of Mississippi and
presentation of all academic schools and colleges; at Convocation, students formally
become student members of the University community. - Answers -true
T/F: The gift given to every freshman at convocation was a signed copy of the
University Creed by the chancellor. It will serve as inspiration studied in the middle of a
study session. - Answers -false
T/F: In the A Game, Ken Sufka describes a "recency effect" that enables a student to
recall the last thing studied better than the information studied in the middle of a study
session. - Answers -true
T/F: In 1962, James Meredith was the first African-American student to enter the
University of Mississippi and was under the protection of U.S. Marshals during his time
as a student at Ole Miss. - Answers -true
T/F: Rebel Run is a community wide marathon that takes place in streets of Oxford
every year. - Answers -false
T/F: The Walk of Champions in the Grove commemorates the important success of
each of the chancellors at the University of Mississippi. - Answers -false
T/F: Plagiarism is the act of using the words of another without giving the originator
credit. - Answers -true
, T/F: The Cornell Note Making system requires a student to record lectures on a
recorder or their phone so they can replayed again later - Answers -false
T/F: There is a University Creed Book for students to sign as a symbol of their voluntary
membership in our community and willingness to uphold the tenets and shared values
stated in the creed. - Answers -true
T/F: There is no such thing as implicit bias. Every person knows, understands, and is
aware when they are discriminating against a particular person or group of people. -
Answers -false
T/F: Meeting with fellow students from class in groups for a meal at a local restaurant
enables students to practice "soft skills" of conversing with strangers and learning how
to support the local economy. It also may serve to turn classmates into friends. -
Answers -true
T/F: Chancellor Sparks steered the University of Mississippi through World War II.
There was a decreasing enrollment and many professors were called away in service to
their country. Chancellor Sparks is recognized for his contributions during that time in a
stained glass window in Ventress Hall. - Answers -false
T/F: The chair of the Academic Discipline Committee is a doctor from the Ole Miss
medical school in Jackson. - Answers -false
T/F: The A Game suggests that there are three levels of learning in Bloom's Taxonomy
of Learning: factual, application, and conceptual. - Answers -true
T/F: The Professional Writing Minor offers a minor made up of 18 credit hours in
courses that prepare students of all disciplines for the workplace. - Answers -true
Handing in a paper that is written by someone else is a form of . . . - Answers -
academic dishonesty
The first print appearance of the . . . cheer surfaced in a 1926 Mississippian. In 1931 an
Ole Miss professor wrote a spirited song titled "Ole Miss" whose chorus included
elements of the cheer. One historian connects the cheer to a World War II whose
chorus battlecry. Virginia Tech's Regimental Band quite possibly served as the origin of
the cheer. - Answers -Hotty Toddy
Meeting with my . . . during office hours allows me a chance to ask questions from
class, follow up on topics of interest, demonstrate my interest in the class, find out more
about the faculty member and share more of who I am and what my circumstances are
so that they know me as well as my work product if I every need to requires an
academic recommendation from them. - Answers -professors
