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FYS final exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which author told the allegory of the cave? | Plato |
| Which author was a Stoic philosopher? | Seneca |
| 3. This Renaissance political philosopher warned rulers against being overly generous. | Machiavelli |
| 4. Which author wrote “On the Shortness of Life”? | Seneca |
| The author of the poem Ulysses is | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| This author wrote his great work while in prison awaiting execution | Boethius |
| The Prince was written by | Machiavelli |
| Which author wrote about a time when he went to rural Tennessee to teach school to impoverished children? | WEB Du Bois |
| The author of the consolation of philosophy is | Boethius |
| This poet is famous for writing haiku poems | Basho |
| Identify the author of this quote: “The only persons who are really at leisure are those who devote themselves to philosophy. They alone really live.” | Seneca |
| “We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart, and it is in this last way that we know first principles; and reason, which has no part in it, tries in vain to impugn them.” | Pascal |
| 13. Identify the author of the quote: “Midway in the journey of our life I found myself in the midst of a dark wood— the true way was lost.” | Dante |
| “I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. ... I I dwell above the Veil.” | WEB Du Bois |
| . Identify the author: “Come, my friends, ‘tis not too late to seek a newer world... To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.” | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| “From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom. ... Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.” | Douglass |
| 17. “It is clear that good deeds never lack reward, or crimes their appropriate punishment. ... Goodness is happiness, and therefore it is obvious that all good men obtain happiness in virtue of their being good.” | Boethius |
| "Leisure is possible only on the premise that man consents to his own true nature and abides in concord with the true meaning of the universe" | Pieper |
| the only emotion I ever feel, Debbie and Lynn, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, | Billy collins |
| Identify the author: “Then there was Josie herself... She had about her a certain fineness, the shadow of an unconscious moral heroism that would willing give all of life to make life broader, deeper, and fuller for her and hers.” | Web Du Bois |
| “The first enemy is excitement... If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly... | CS Lewis |
| “The prisoners would believe that the truth is nothing other than the shadows of these artifacts” The author of this quote is | Plato |
| 23. “And behold, here, almost at the first rise a leopard, so light, nimble, and swift, ...impeded my path.” | Dante |
| “What, then, shall a man do in this state? Shall he doubt everything? ... Shall he doubt that he exists? We cannot go so far as that; and I lay it down as a fact that there never has been a real complete skeptic.” | Pascal |
| “Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet needs something to set against the present . . . degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense" | CS Lewis |
| “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” | Virginia Woolf |
| Which author wrote “Cogito ergo sum” (“I think, therefore I am”)? | Descartes |
| This author discovers that “education and slavery were incompatible.” | Frederick Douglass |
| Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love’s day. . . . But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near | Andrew Marvell |
| This author was visited by Lady Philosophy | Boethius |
| “It is far better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.” | Machiavelli |
| “One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| “Imagine human beings living in an underground, cave-like dwelling . . . They’ve been there since childhood, fixed in the same place, with their necks and legs fettered to see only in front of them | Plato |
| “Thus it is: We do not receive a short life, but we make it a short one, and we are not poor in days, but wasteful of them. | Seneca |
| “I know thee well enough. Thy name is Gloucester: Thou must be patient; we came crying hither: Thou know’st, the first time we smell the air, We wawl and cry . . . When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools.” | William Shakespeare |
| From the “How to Quote Like a Pro” lesson, you learned that you should always | d.all of the above |
| Every time you quote from a text, you should create a | a. Quote sandwich |
| From the quotations lesson: When students quote from a text, they sometimes do not explain or discuss the quotation because they assume the quotations | b. speak for themselves |
| An Introduction paragraph should include which three ingredients? | a. A hook, an explanation of the topic, and a thesis statement |
| According to the lesson on writing discussion board posts, when writing DB posts you should state your own viewpoint clearly, give your post a snappy title, use specific examples in your post, and (pick the best answer): | proofread carefully to avoid sloppy punctuation and capitalization errors |
| According to the “Writing Ethically with AI” micro-credential course . . . What are the "three V’s" that you should maintain in your writing? | C) Voice, Vision, Values |
| According to the “Writing Ethically with AI” micro-credential course . . . Which of the following is considered an unethical use of AI in writing an essay? | C) Using AI to write complete sentences or paragraphs for you. |
| According to the “Writing Ethically with AI” micro-credential course . . . Which question should you ask yourself to determine if your use of AI is ethical? | B) Would it be cheating if a friend or family member was doing for me what AI is doing? |
| According to the “Writing Ethically with AI” micro-credential course . . . Which of the following roles are NOT ones you should cast AI in during your writing process? Select all that apply. | expert judge? |
| When you have an essay due, you can visit the Tutoring Center where a writing tutor can help you with any stage of the writing process. Which is NOT something the writing tutors can do to help you? | d. Write the paper for you |
| Which of the following is NOT true of the Tutoring Center? | d. You have to pay to visit the Tutoring Center |
| Which of the following can Career Services help you with? | d. all of the above |
| Beulah Williams Library is open every day of the week except | d. Saturday |
| Who is in charge of the Tutoring Center? | a. Kerry Casper |
| Where is the Tutoring Center located? | b. The first floor of MJ/TC |
| Which of the following can the Tutoring Center NOT help students with | e. Latin dance skills |
| The Office of Disability Services is located in | the student center |
| Which of the following is NOT true of the Counseling Center | d. it is run by Michael Mohammed |
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