Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Final Chance Final Exam

A final semester exam will be offered for those people who failed to do enough of the assigned work to receive social studies credit this semester.  This is your last chance to demonstrate mastery of the core material.  

You are encouraged to submit multiple choice questions for possible inclusion in the exam.  If you write the question you'll be more likely to remember the answer.  Please consider the various units we've explored this semester and write questions that capture core concepts from those units.  Please post your questions as comments on this post.

For AWOL:
American Way of Birth
Welfare Systems - (Danish vs American, Health Care, Poverty, Class Inequality)
American Way of Food
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For LDH2BM:
Old Folks
Animal
Health - including mental and emotional health
Food 
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Sample questions:

Industrial food is food that;
a.  is very strong
b.  is processed by fossil-fuel using machinery
c.  contains poisonous extracts of wild plants
d.  does not require cooking.

What is the most likely cause for the original collapse on Easter Island?
a.  European imperialism
b.  Climate change
c.  Civil war
d.  Over-exploitation of renewable resources

14 comments:

  1. In what year did the oil peak happen?
    1969
    1970
    1971
    1972
    Who was the man who predicted it?
    Bennet
    Hubbert
    Riddick
    Johnson

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  2. How did industrialization affect family farms?
    Made them better
    created factory farming which drove the family farms out
    had no effect on them
    were bad for them because they took all the money

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  3. What led to the collapse of Easter Island?
    1. the demolition of the forest and thirst for power
    2.the people were stupid
    3.all the animals died out
    4.there was a harmful plague that killed everyone

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  4. Which of the following do you think best describes an animals life in an industrial factory:

    a) Miserable, painful
    b) Joyful
    c) Meaningful
    d) Hopeful

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  5. If You were from a low income family and the price raised, the price will not effect you as much as it will the wealthier income families.

    A) True
    B) False

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  6. is one of the main reasons corn came to be one of the leading crops used in the US?

    a)Cheap and efficient
    b)Government intervention
    c)Genetic Malleability
    d)All of the Above

    What are most industrial farm animals fed?
    a)hay
    b)grass
    c)corn
    d)corn & soybean

    List 3 ways we are like animals?

    What is a common argument against humans being the same as animals?
    a)Genesis
    b)Freud
    c)Writers/Stories/Poems
    d)a & b
    e)a & c
    f)all of above
    g) Its only supposed to go to e!! this question is weird!!

    short answer
    Which do you think is the most effective in this argument and why? What do you think?

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  7. Short answer:
    How is the Easter Island chapter that we read connects with America today?

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  9. Which of the following does ( Or does not) contain corn?
    Which of the following is not done to chickens?
    Which of the following is a direct similarity of Easter Island to current American society?

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  10. FOR LDH2BM:

    According to "Ishmael", our theory of evolution is:

    a) correct
    b) interesting
    c) a creation myth
    d) Ishmael never gave an opinion on this

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  11. In Pollan, what did he say was the source in everything we eat?

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  12. What french guy said that animals are purely physical entities with no mental or spiritual substance - machines without souls.

    a) Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
    b) Blaise Pascal
    c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    d) René Descartes

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  13. What would be the biggest contributing factor to a collapse of the American society?

    a. Babies/kids
    b. Oil
    c. The American People
    d. Global warming

    What is the American diet mostly made up of?

    a. junk food
    b. sodas/waters
    c. corn
    d. most American's don't eat

    People who advocate for a safer more comfortable birth without the brugs and blades are:

    a. doctors
    b. spouses
    c. midwives
    d. parents

    People who boast the fact that they recieve monet from the government, and also live primarily off of it are known as:

    a. Welfare Queens
    b. Geriatrics
    c. Diabetics
    d. Disabled

    I made these as easy as possible... hope it helped

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  14. sorry i didn't come, i honestly woke up too late...

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