INQ 111: Quiz 1

 

1) Terms (70%): identify 10 of 12 terms for which a brief description will be given (a list of all the terms will be provided)

 

2) Short-answer questions (30%): several short-answer questions

 

 

For review:

 

1. Materials covered through 25 Sep (focus on significant issues in the readings below):

 

•Inquiry preliminaries (Inquiry, v–xiv)

•Fisher: Effective Learning (also in Inquiry text)

•Knight: LIberal Arts Gave Me a Liberal Dose of Life Lessons

•Newman: The Idea of a University (excerpts)

•Westminster College: Mission Statement

•Josefson: Learning Is Not Fun

•Shapiro: Liberal Education, Moral Education

•Finkelmeyer: Grades; cf. "Traditional Letter Grades" (Inquiry, xii)

•Callahan: Cheating from the Starting Line (also click here)

•Academic Integrity Policy (also see in Inquiry text)

•Plato: Allegory of the Cave (take notes showing analysis of the allegory): draw the cave described in the allegory

•Andersen: The Emperor's New Clothes

•Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant

•Calandra: Angels on a Pin

•Kraybill: The Riddle of Amish Culture

•Plato: Allegory of the Cave

•Andersen: The Emperor's New Clothes

•Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant

 

2. Questions you should be ready to answer (see the R-drive file for more information & tips):

 

1) What is liberal arts education? (e.g., Jones, Knight, Newman, Scudder, Shapiro)

 

2) How do the following texts interrelate, and how do they relate to some of the goals of Inquiry (NB: this assumes your knowledge of some of the goals of Inquiry):

 

    • Andersen

    • Blind Men and the Elephant

    • Calandra's "Angels on a Pin"

    • Csikszentmihalyi

    • Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

    • Shapiro

 

3) What is critical thinking? Why is it important? What 3 texts speak to this issue? How so?

 

4) What does seeing have to do with epistemology?

 

3. highlighted terms on the R-drive