PAC FINAL EXAM SIMS CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY correctly answered to pass

PAC FINAL EXAM SIMS CEDARVILLE
UNIVERSITY correctly answered to pass

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 - correct answer ✔✔True



Postman (in Amusing Ourselves to Death) argues the Lincoln-Douglas debates were
unsophisticated compared to modern political rhetoric. T/F - correct answer ✔✔False



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 - correct answer ✔✔True



Postman believes the contemporary American culture is more like what Orwell described in
1984. T/f - correct answer ✔✔False



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
- correct answer ✔✔True



Cultures based on the written word tend to value argument and reason, while cultures built
around visual communication value appearance and emotion. t/f - correct answer ✔✔True



The transition to a visual culture went in this order:

books/text-->photograph-->radio-->television/image t/f - correct answer ✔✔False



Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death) believes television favors action and movement, so it
struggles to portray thinking. t/f - correct answer ✔✔True

,Postman (Amusing Ourselves...) sees tv news as the one part of television that has largely
remained factual and informative. t/f - correct answer ✔✔False



Postman (Amusing Ourselves...) thinks religion, especially Christianity, is hard, doctrinal, and
complex, which makes it a poor fit for tv portrayals. t/f - correct answer ✔✔True



Politicians are essentially sold as products in a television culture. They veer toward slogans and
simplicity and away from complexity and nuance t/f - correct answer ✔✔True



TV, for all its flaws, at least adequately prepares voters as they attempt to hold politicians
responsible for their actions. t/f - correct answer ✔✔False



Television has had a significant impact on education by conditioning students to require
entertainment in the classroom--according to Postman (Amusing Ourselves...) t/f - correct
answer ✔✔False



Wilson (The New Freedom) argues that America's attachment to its founding documents is one
of its strengths. t/f - correct answer ✔✔False



For progressives, liberty, not equality, appears to be the key political value. t/f - correct answer
✔✔False



Roosevelt ("State of the Union Message...") sees rights in largely economic, as opposed to legal,
terms t/f - correct answer ✔✔False



Wilson argues that constitutional limits on the powers of the presidency must be rigidly
adhered to. t/f - correct answer ✔✔False

, In his 2nd Inaugural Address, Reagan shows a significant disconnect between himself and
America's Founders. t/f - correct answer ✔✔False



Reagan emphasizes governmental solutions to the most significant problems that confront us.
t/f - correct answer ✔✔False



For Russell Kirk and his Ten Conservative Principles, human nature is a constant, unchanging
aspect of political reality. t/f - correct answer ✔✔True



Russell Kirk, in his Ten Conservative Principles, resists change of all sorts. t/f - correct answer
✔✔False



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 -
correct answer ✔✔True



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 - correct answer ✔✔False



The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise in the Dred Scott
case. t/f - correct answer ✔✔False



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 - correct answer ✔✔True



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 -
correct answer ✔✔False