Contemporary Tensions

Question 1

What was the 1967’s Summer of Love?

Answer 1

Opposition to the Vietnam War
Rejection of mainstream culture
Creation of alternative society

Question 2

1968 was the height of the Vietnam War. T or F?

Answer 2

T

Question 3

Who was assassinated in 1968?

Answer 3

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy

Question 4

At the Democratic National
Convention in Chicago a ___________ broke out amongst hippies and the police.

Answer 4

riot/ fight

Question 5

What was Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” about?

Answer 5

A War on Poverty with many anti-poverty programs
Medicaid, Medicare, and expansion of Social Security

Question 6

Freedom means being an independent self, unbound by prior moral
ties and capable of choosing my ends (telos) for myself. defines what?

Answer 6

Moral individualism

Question 7

Who said this famous quote? “In the present crisis, government is not the solution to
our problem; government is the problem.”

Answer 7

Ronald Reagan

Question 8

Who said, “Our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the
intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from
unnecessary and excessive growth of government.”?

Answer 8

Ronald Reagan

Question 9

What is the American dilemma?

Answer 9

Encourage individual freedom and risk opportunity for community; encourage community and stifle individual choice

Question 10

What is the following quote describing? “By a faction, I understand a number of
citizens, whether amounting to a
majority or a minority of the whole,
who are united and actuated by some
common impulse of passion, or interest,
adverse to the rights of other citizens,
or to the permanent and aggregate
interests of the community.”

Answer 10

Madison’s definition of a faction

Question 11

In Madison’s definition of factions there is the possibility of a faction infringing on the rights of other citizens and the possibility of a faction infringing on the rights of a community. T or F?

Answer 11

T

Question 12

What two political impulses does Michael Walzer describe?

Answer 12

Oneness and manyness

Question 13

Who said, “[T]he conflict between the one and
the many is a pervasive feature of
American life.”?

Answer 13

Michael Walzer

Question 14

What is Israel Zangwell’s metaphor for “oneness”?

Answer 14

The Melting Pot

Question 15

What does “E pluribus, unum” mean?

Answer 15

From many, one

Question 16

What does E pluribus unum suggest?

Answer 16

We must leave behind our manyness to become one

Question 17

What does the sheaf of arrows that the eagle hold in the American seal represent?

Answer 17

Many-in-one, allowing for the flourishment of many

Question 18

Who said, “But the real historical alternative is
the test proposed by the cultural
pluralists: one proves one’s
Americanism, in their view, by living
in peace with all the other
‘Americans,’ that is, by agreeing
to respect social manyness
rather than by pledging
allegiance to the ‘one and
indivisible’ republic …”?

Answer 18

Michael Walzer

Question 19

What did Walzer say about ethnic groups?

Answer 19

Ethnic and religious groups can
intervene to defend themselves or
advance common interests but they
cannot impose their culture or their
values.

Question 20

Who said “As a practical basis for co-existence,
we should accept the reality that we
are fellow citizens who need each
other. This requires us to accept
some laws we dislike, and to live
peacefully with some persons
whose values dier from our own.
Amid such inevitable dierences, we
should make every eort to
understand the experiences and
concerns of others, especially when
they differ from our own.”?

Answer 20

President Dallin H. Oaks