Quiz 02| Higher Education | Oxford University Press Canada

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Question 1:

What is critical thinking is?
a) Thinking that is based on well-defined criteria
b) Thinking that is based on harsh judgments
c) Thinking that is based on consensus
d) Thinking that is based on contextual snap-judgments

Question 2:

What is a critical thinker’s view of the status of knowledge?
a) Knowledge involves infinite chains of reasons.
b) Knowledge appeals to irrational criteria and authorities.
c) Knowledge is dependent on obligations and permissions.
d) Knowledge is not constant and a position may be changed later.

Question 3:

What does a critical thinker possess?
a) The ability to justify a belief through internal knowledge
b) The ability to offer a critique of the possibility of justified knowledge
c) The ability to identify value judgments and seek out evidence
d) The ability to recognize universal truths independent of untested assumptions

Question 4:

Which best describes the traditions in philosophy and science?
a) They are rooted in systems of pre-established and unexamined assumptions.
b) They were abandoned in the early twentieth century after the collapse of logical positivism.
c) They exemplify the idea of a rational community.
d) They were abandoned after the rise of the sociological perspective.

Question 5:

In terms of intellectual humility, what must a critical sociological thinker be constantly evaluating?
a) His or her own judgments
b) His or her own convictions
c) His or her own ignorance
d) His or her own biases

Question 6:

Socrates’ aphorisms “Know thyself” and “I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance” is exemplified by which characteristic of a critical thinker?
a) self-identity
b) self-evaluation
c) skepticism
d) self-empathy

Question 7:

What is one of the most significant demarcations of differences in social and cultural life in Canada?
a) Religious ideology
b) Language
c) Ethnicity
d) Gender

Question 8:

What did the research of Finnie, Childs, and Wismer (2011) find to be more important than parental income in influencing post-secondary attendance?
a) Parental education
b) Self-esteem
c) Standardized test results
d) Individual decision

Question 9:

How was issue of the “honour killing” of Aqsa Parvez framed in the Canadian context?
a) Multicultural context
b) Feminist context
c) Domestic violence context
d) Cultural violence context

Question 10:

What is the leading cause of potential years of life lost in both the First Nations and Inuit populations?
a) Depression
b) Lung cancer
c) Diabetes
d) Suicide

True or False Questions

Question 11:

Critical thinking is a well-defined set of general principles and remains unchanged regardless of discipline or historical context.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

For René Descartes, reasoning had to produce absolute certainty.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Critical thinkers should not question their deeply held convictions.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Sociology examines relations of domination and exploitation between social groups.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Human-caused climate change was “discovered” as a public issue in the 1980s.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

In a study conducted by Dugas and Young (2012) it was found that Canadian French-language coverage was more likely than English-language coverage to mention human causation when covering climate change.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Research shows that economic barriers do not impact an individual’s decision to attain a post-secondary education.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Montreal has more foreign-born residents than any other Canadian metropolitan area.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Health status is a personal affair affected by individual choices such as what we choose to eat, whether we choose to smoke or not, the amount of stress we experience as individuals, and other personal choices we make during our lives.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

The health of First Nations women is worse than that of Aboriginal men and is much worse when compared to the health of all other Canadians.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Thinking About Sociology, Second Edition - Chapter 2