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Test Bank
PREFACE and INTRODUCTION
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Essay question: Before reading this chapter, answer these questions: To this
point how have you thought about the role of thinking in your life? To what
extent do you understand your thinking or how it is influencing the way you
live your life?
question 1.According to the authors, you are what you ________.
answer a. eat
answer b. earn
answer c. desire
answer d. think
question 2. For most people, thinking is _______.
answer a. subconscious
answer b. rare
answer c. usually explicitly stated
answer d. deliberate
question: 3. _______ causes problems, wastes time, wastes energy, and causes
frustration and pain in all areas of life.
answer a. Skilled thinking
answer b. Poor thinking
answer c. Poor paying job
answer d. Personal control of thinking
4. The following are examples of _______: self-knowledge, knowledge of
how one’s own mind works, and knowledge of how and why we think as we
do.
answer a. natural learning
answer b. inward learning
answer c. making a hell of heaven
answer d. an inevitable process
question: 5. What can critical thinking do for you?
i. Be added on to everything else
ii. Provide tools of the mind for college and life
iii. Improve reasoning through short and long term goals.
answer a. i and iii
answer b. ii and iii
answer c. I and ii
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answer d. all of the above
question: 6. _______ is spontaneous and non-reflective and often includes
indiscriminate use of insight, prejudice, truth and error, and good and bad
reasoning.
answer a. First order thinking
answer b. Second order thinking
answer c. Reflective thinking
answer d. Empathetic thinking
question: 7. After her freshman year of college, when the anticipated social life
and parties did not fulfill her original impression of college, Sara began to
change her purposes for being a student, She consciously began to analyze,
assess, and reconstruct her purpose and goals. Sara was using
answer a. First order thinking
answer b. Second order thinking
answer c. Intellectual cowardice
answer d. Outward learning
ANSWER KEY TO PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION
1:D
2:A
3:B
4:B
5:B
6:A
7:B
CHAPTER 1 BECOMING A FAIR-MINDED THINKER
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Essay question: what is your concept of a fair-minded thinker? Can you think
of ways in which you have acted in a fair-minded manner, or in which you
have failed to exhibit this trait? Focus on one situation in which you acted
unfairly – how might you change your behavior to act more fairly in a similar
situation?
question 1. All of the following are traits of strong sense critical thinking
EXCEPT:
answer a. capable of exposing masters of intellectual games who gain
something at the expense of the well-being of innocent people.
answer b. capable of winning arguments through sophistry and rhetoric.
answer c. capable of using intellectual courage in arguing publicly against
unethical thinking.
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answer d. capable of higher-level fair-mindedness.
question 2. A typical weak sense critical thinking high school or college
student probably would
answer a. not be too concerned about grades.
answer b. take coursework very seriously
answer c. examine deep issues related to subject matter.
answer d. get high grades by cramming just before an exam.
3. You are in a heated discussion with your close friend concerning the
teaching of evolution in science classes in high school curriculums. You are an
ardent creationist who passionately and eloquently argues your point.
Even though you vehemently disagree with the opposing point of view, you
force yourself to listen to your friend’s defense of the merits of teaching
evolutionary theory in public schools. You try to accurately represent your
friend’s view in your own mind.
You are using
answer a. intellectual empathy.
answer b. intellectual perseverance
answer c. intellectual humility
answer d. intellectual integrity
question 4.Which of the following is NOT a critical thinking trait?
answer a. intellectual autonomy
answer b. intellectual perseverance
answer c. intellectual conformity
answer d. intellectual humility
question 5. When one thinks independently without being blindly influenced
by others, (s)he is practicing
answer a. intellectual integrity
answer b. unreflective thinking
answer c. intellectual autonomy
answer d. intellectual arrogance
question 6. One of your roommates is playing music loudly while you are
trying to study. You ask him to turn the music down but he refuses. You start
yelling at him and throw your shoe across the room at him. You are using
answer a. egocentric thinking
answer b. intellectual empathy
answer c. academic sophistry
answer d. intellectual humility
question7. When one practices what one preaches, and one’s beliefs are
consistent with one’s actions, (s)he is practicing
Test Bank
PREFACE and INTRODUCTION
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Essay question: Before reading this chapter, answer these questions: To this
point how have you thought about the role of thinking in your life? To what
extent do you understand your thinking or how it is influencing the way you
live your life?
question 1.According to the authors, you are what you ________.
answer a. eat
answer b. earn
answer c. desire
answer d. think
question 2. For most people, thinking is _______.
answer a. subconscious
answer b. rare
answer c. usually explicitly stated
answer d. deliberate
question: 3. _______ causes problems, wastes time, wastes energy, and causes
frustration and pain in all areas of life.
answer a. Skilled thinking
answer b. Poor thinking
answer c. Poor paying job
answer d. Personal control of thinking
4. The following are examples of _______: self-knowledge, knowledge of
how one’s own mind works, and knowledge of how and why we think as we
do.
answer a. natural learning
answer b. inward learning
answer c. making a hell of heaven
answer d. an inevitable process
question: 5. What can critical thinking do for you?
i. Be added on to everything else
ii. Provide tools of the mind for college and life
iii. Improve reasoning through short and long term goals.
answer a. i and iii
answer b. ii and iii
answer c. I and ii
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answer d. all of the above
question: 6. _______ is spontaneous and non-reflective and often includes
indiscriminate use of insight, prejudice, truth and error, and good and bad
reasoning.
answer a. First order thinking
answer b. Second order thinking
answer c. Reflective thinking
answer d. Empathetic thinking
question: 7. After her freshman year of college, when the anticipated social life
and parties did not fulfill her original impression of college, Sara began to
change her purposes for being a student, She consciously began to analyze,
assess, and reconstruct her purpose and goals. Sara was using
answer a. First order thinking
answer b. Second order thinking
answer c. Intellectual cowardice
answer d. Outward learning
ANSWER KEY TO PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION
1:D
2:A
3:B
4:B
5:B
6:A
7:B
CHAPTER 1 BECOMING A FAIR-MINDED THINKER
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Essay question: what is your concept of a fair-minded thinker? Can you think
of ways in which you have acted in a fair-minded manner, or in which you
have failed to exhibit this trait? Focus on one situation in which you acted
unfairly – how might you change your behavior to act more fairly in a similar
situation?
question 1. All of the following are traits of strong sense critical thinking
EXCEPT:
answer a. capable of exposing masters of intellectual games who gain
something at the expense of the well-being of innocent people.
answer b. capable of winning arguments through sophistry and rhetoric.
answer c. capable of using intellectual courage in arguing publicly against
unethical thinking.
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answer d. capable of higher-level fair-mindedness.
question 2. A typical weak sense critical thinking high school or college
student probably would
answer a. not be too concerned about grades.
answer b. take coursework very seriously
answer c. examine deep issues related to subject matter.
answer d. get high grades by cramming just before an exam.
3. You are in a heated discussion with your close friend concerning the
teaching of evolution in science classes in high school curriculums. You are an
ardent creationist who passionately and eloquently argues your point.
Even though you vehemently disagree with the opposing point of view, you
force yourself to listen to your friend’s defense of the merits of teaching
evolutionary theory in public schools. You try to accurately represent your
friend’s view in your own mind.
You are using
answer a. intellectual empathy.
answer b. intellectual perseverance
answer c. intellectual humility
answer d. intellectual integrity
question 4.Which of the following is NOT a critical thinking trait?
answer a. intellectual autonomy
answer b. intellectual perseverance
answer c. intellectual conformity
answer d. intellectual humility
question 5. When one thinks independently without being blindly influenced
by others, (s)he is practicing
answer a. intellectual integrity
answer b. unreflective thinking
answer c. intellectual autonomy
answer d. intellectual arrogance
question 6. One of your roommates is playing music loudly while you are
trying to study. You ask him to turn the music down but he refuses. You start
yelling at him and throw your shoe across the room at him. You are using
answer a. egocentric thinking
answer b. intellectual empathy
answer c. academic sophistry
answer d. intellectual humility
question7. When one practices what one preaches, and one’s beliefs are
consistent with one’s actions, (s)he is practicing
