Question 1 (4 points)
According to Dr. Phillips, at the heart of the liberal world view one finds:
Question 1 options:
An attempt to reconcile individual liberty and political equality.
State intervention in the economy and non-intervention in private life.
A tension between individual rights and identity-based group rights.
A pessimistic view of human nature and an optimistic view of government.
The view that human beings are fundamentally cooperative and well-meaning.
Question 2 (4 points)
Which of the following thinkers was most clearly NOT a liberal?
Question 2 options:
Plato
John Locke
John Stuart Mill
John Rawls
Question 3 (4 points)
According to Dr. Phillips, at the heart of the liberal world view one finds:
Question 3 options:
An attempt to reconcile individual liberty and political equality.
State intervention in the economy and non-intervention in private life.
A tension between individual rights and identity-based group rights.
A pessimistic view of human nature and an optimistic view of government.
The view that human beings are fundamentally cooperative and well-meaning.
Question 4 (4 points)
John Stuart Mill and John Locke can be described as liberals when it comes to toleration, but they have very different views about:
Question 4 options:
the role of religion in public life.
the permissible roles of Catholics in English public life.
the ultimate justification for individual rights.
the role of parliament in the United Kingdom.
Question 5 (4 points)
In the United States, the Democratic party can be understood as an alliance between high liberals and democratic socialists. What is the best description of the difference among the following?
Question 5 options:
High liberals typically want to give people autonomy and real choices, whereas democratic socialists want an egalitarian and solidaristic community.
Democratic socialists endorse state intervention in the economy, whereas high liberals tend not to.
Democratic socialists endorse redistribution of incomes, whereas high liberals are more focused on social insurance.
High liberals tend to have more conservative views on social issues like abortion or drug legalization, whereas democratic socialists tend to be more permissive on these issues.
Question 6 (4 points)
Conservatives like Edmund Burke worry a lot about:
Question 6 options:
the unpredictable impact of radical or rapid changes to society.
state intervention in the economy.
preserving the family as a central social institution.
unwanted intervention in private affairs.
obedience to traditional institutions and hierarchies.
Question 7 (4 points)
Accordingto Dr. Phillips, which of these is not a conservative view?
Question 7 options:
we should be confident in our individual rational faculties.
human nature cannot be perfected.
war is a permanent part of the human condition.
most of the important questions about human life have already been answered.
obedience to traditional institutions and hierarchies is sensible.
Question 8 (4 points)
According to Dr. Phillips, a typical conservative preference might be:
Question 8 options:
trying to make a profit wherever possible.
trying to avoid wasting time.
preferring to study old books rather than new ones.
preferring free spirited animals to loyal animals.
Question 9 (4 points)
Most conservatives see human nature as:
Question 9 options:
irrelevant to most political problems.
fundamentally good.
fundamentally unchanging.
fundamentally evil.
always perfectible.
Question 10 (4 points)
According to Dr. Phillips, what is the typical attitude of conservatives towards the free market?
Question 10 options:
Ambivalence.
Strong support.
Strong skepticism.
Indifference.
Denial.
Question 11 (4 points)
Socialism is a family of views that emerges in the:
Question 11 options:
early 1800s
early 1900s
late 1800s
early 1700s
mid 1600s
Question 12 (4 points)
Early communists like Karl Marx criticized socialism for being too:
Question 12 options:
utopian
academic
disorganized
friendly to capitalism
focused on unions instead of politics
Question 13 (4 points)
Unlike political philosophers who use the term to refer to a set of values or ends, economists often define socialism as:
Question 13 options:
replacing the market economy with state ownership of the means of production.
very high tax rates on wealth and income.
extensive regulatory intervention in the market.
extensive worker control over private firms.
Question 14 (4 points)
When compared with socialism, communism:
Question 14 options:
has a much more comprehensive worldview.
makes fewer specific claims or predictions about the course of history.
is less teleological.
is more tolerant of ideological diversity.
Question 15 (4 points)
The view that history is a process of class conflict is also known as:
Question 15 options:
dialectical materialism
teleology
contextual functionalism
cognitive dissonance
Question 16 (4 points)
The idea that workers are harmfully separated from things that properly belong to them under a capitalist system of wage labor is often referred to by Marxists as:
Question 16 options:
alienation
exploitation
immiseration
pauperization
false consciousness
Question 17 (4 points)
In Marx, the working classes are also referred to as:
Question 17 options:
the proletariat
the bourgeoisie
the peasantry
the 99%
Question 18 (4 points)
Marxists call those freedoms mostly valuable to the middle and upper classes that are either useless for the working class or actively hostile to the interests of the working class:
Question 18 options:
Bourgeois freedoms
Market freedoms
Capitalist freedoms
Individual freedoms
Private freedoms
Question 19 (4 points)
Someone who thinks indviduals should be able to buy and sell anything they own (including their rights) is probably a:
Question 19 options:
libertarian
liberal
conservative
socialist
communist
Question 20 (4 points)
Which of the following authors is most clearly not a libertarian:
Question 20 options:
Rawls
Nozick
Hayek
Mises
Rothbard
Question 21 (4 points)
The view that all the public functions of the state (like legislation, law enforcement, security, courts, etc.) can be better provided for by private contracting through the market is known as
Question 21 options:
Anarcho-syndicalism
Libertarianism
Georgism
Ultra-conservatism
Anarcho-capitalism
Question 22 (4 points)
Feminists historically have usually understood the struggle for women’s rights as:
Question 22 options:
a struggle for equality.
a struggle for liberty/emancipation.
a struggle for female well-being.
all of the above, depending on the time period and the specific feminist tradition examined.
Question 23 (4 points)
Which kinds of feminism pays most attention to the ways in which language reinforces traditional gender roles and keeps women oppressed?
Question 23 options:
Postmodern feminism
Radical feminism
Liberal feminism
Marxist feminism
The Ethics of Care
Question 24 (4 points)
Which kinds of feminism focuses most on the fundamental psychological differences between men and women and is thus skeptical that strict equality of treatment of the sexes is always justified?
Question 24 options:
Postmodern feminism
Illiberal feminism
Liberal feminism
Marxist feminism
The Ethics of Care
Question 25 (4 points)
Calls to ban pornography are most often heard from:
Question 25 options:
Postmodern feminists
Radical feminists
Liberal feminists
Marxist feminists
