please see the file attached and follow the instruction. please do ask me if you have any qustion.

READINGS FOR THE TEST

Letters A through C are used in the questions to refer to the following readings or materials.

A.   Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a

Birmingham Jail, BB

B.   Witnessing: Key Concepts, in PPT

C.   Aristotle, Power-Point Slide on Rhetoric, in PPT (These are in the COURSE SLIDES)

PPT = Slides the PowerPoint Course Slides (What is a Social Ethial Issue).

para = paragraph

MLK = Martin Luther King, Jr.

NVDA = Non-Violent Direct Action

 

Re NVDA:  True (T) or False (F) and Multiple Choice

1.  ____  (T or F)  Text A, paras 6-9, indicates that NVDA discounts the value of negotiation in settling disputes and resolving grievances.

2.  ____  By  “self purification” MLK means (X)  a program of individual meditation to prepare for prospective demonstrators; (Y)  a process used after demonstrations to deal with the trauma left by police abuse; (Z)  preparation for the verbal and physical attacks that occur in a demonstration.

3. ____  (T or F) NVDA is designed to calm a troubled situation.

 

Re Civil Disobedience, Text A, paras 12-17

4. ____  According to Text A, paras 12 and 13, (X)  there are no universal moral laws that apply to all societies; (Y) some man-made laws are unjust and may/should be disobeyed;  (Z) respect for God’s law always requires obedience to State laws.

5. ____ In Text A, paras 12 and 13, all of the following offer a non-religious justification for civil disobedience except  (X) Kant’s concept of personhood; (Y) Buber’s notion of the I-Thou relationship; (Z) Tillich’s notion of separation.

6. ____ According to MLK, which of the following is true regarding civil disobedience: (X) it’s a concept that originates with him; (Y) it is rejected by Scripture and all Christian thinkers: (Z) it can actually express respect for the law.

7. ____ Which of the following best expresses the approach of Text A?  (X) it is a tightly argued legal brief against segregation; (Y) it appeals to philosophical principles as well as religious imperatives; (Z) it congratulates the black and white clergymen of the South, to whom it is addressed, for their patience and moderation in dealing with segregation.

 

Witnessing, Key Points (Text B)

8. ____ (T or F) MLK had little hope that the perpetrators of racial injustice and violence could be converted by NVDA.

9. ____ (T or F) NVDA requires demonstrators to put their bodies “on the line” or at risk in witnessing to the injustices of the system.

 

Rhetoric

10. ____ (T or F) According to Aristotle, Slide C, a speaker should not appeal to the emotions of an audience to win support for his position.

11 ____ (T or F) According to Aristotle, to be persuasive, a speaker should be a person of virtue or outstanding character.

 

“Eyes on the Prize” – Ain’t Scared of Your Jails”

(Shown in class.  For a refresher, you may watch episode 3 and others on You Tube.  Google the above.)

TRUE (T) OR FALSE (F)

12. ____ Brutality directed againstpeaceful student demonstrators in first lunch-counter sit-ins of the civil rights movement demonstrated the failure of the MLK’s philosophy of non-violent direct action (NVDA).

13.____The mayor of Nashville only changed his views on segregation under political and economic pressure.

14. ____The student march in Nashville was notable for the speeches given by the student organizers along their route through the center of the city.

15.____The larger African-American community kept a low profile when students arrested at sit-ins were thrown in jail.

 

PLURALISM:  TRUE (T) OR FALSE (F)

16. ____denies that actions, objects, or values have intrinsic worth.

17. ____holds that life is an over-riding and unconditional virtue or good.

18. ____applies a universal ethical standard to all situations.

19. ____believes that monetary cost and benefit provides a common measure for resolving all choices, including ethical choices.

20. ____expects very little to result from the discussion of ethical issues among a group that is divided by different ethical notions of the good.

 

 

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