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Question 1

In 1991, why was Clarence Thomas proposed for an appointment at the supreme court?

Answer 1

Accused of sexual harrasment of the female lawyer Anita Hill

Question 2

What is hazing?

Answer 2

Any activity expected of someone joining a group that humiliates, degrades or risks emotional and/or physical harm, regardless of the persons willingness to participate

Question 3

What happened in the military incident of 1991?

Answer 3

83 women and 4 men claimed that they had been subject to sexual harrasment at a US navy convention

Question 4

What did cadets from the US coastguard do at one performance when John hits Carol?

Answer 4

cheered

Question 5

What did the novel ‘The closing of the American Mind’ by Allan Bloom express anxiety towards?

Answer 5

A decline in the academic standards expected of university students

Question 6

Oleanna refers to a folk song about what?

Answer 6

Man named Ole and his wife Anna sold useless land as argricultural land making buyers lose everything

Question 7

What was the song called?

Answer 7

Oleanna swindle

Question 8

What did development of post-modernist encourage?

Answer 8

• moral and cultural relativism
• the view that the truth is the product of multiple perspectives
• the notion that the proper response to the world is scepticism regarding traditional ideas and straightforward answers

Question 9

The term ‘political correctness’ was developed by……

Answer 9

Neo-conservative movement in US

Question 10

According to William H Macy, who was playing the role of John, audience members who went backstage did what act the actress playing Carol?

Answer 10

Snubbed