exam questions Please mark "yes" for question that you want to keep in the question pool.1. What role does power play in the relationship between individual and society? Discuss on the basis of three authors.yesno2. What are the different ways in which our authors define oppression and injustice?yesno3. How do our authors discuss being marginalized in society, and what role do they see an individual playing as an advocate for change?yesno4. Taking ideas from our authors, could you combine them into a society that works for everyone? If so, how, and if not, why?yesno5. What role does the idea of a human nature play for our authors?yesno6. We have read many different accounts of what it means to be free. Which of these, in your view, is the most important sense of “freedom” and why?yesno7. Most of the authors we have read embrace the liberal arts to some degree. But they obviously come to very different conclusions. What’s the point of the liberal arts, then, if they do not guarantee arriving at an objective truth?yesno8. At the end of Walker's essay, she hopes that the "humanistic tradition" can save society from economic, racial, gender, and religious inequalities. Pulling from three texts, how does a liberal arts education prepare students to better understand their society and effectuate change within it?yesno9. What should be the purpose of education?yesno10. Explore gender: How are women and men represented differently by the authors?yesno11. Explore ways that our authors' works have impacted our society today. In other words, how are these works foundational?yesno12. Discuss how our course theme, "Origins" is represented by three of our authors.yesno13. Are science and religion completely at odds with one another, can they work together, or do they deal with entirely separate issues?yesno14. Using at least one poem and at least one prose work, describe how our authors have reflected on the role of language as it shapes society and\or the individual.yesno15. Language is discussed by many of our authors as what makes us exceptional, but it has also been cited as a medium through which the worsts of human nature can be seen. How do our authors negotiate these differences?yesno16. Is it possible to know that an idea is true? Why or why not?yesno17. What are all of the different factors that come together to make a self?yesnoName First Last
