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Humanities
HUM Chapter 2
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Undergraduate 2
09/14/2011

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Chances are good that our minds will not desert us later in life if we do this early on.
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Exercise our critical faculties
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According to the text, the older one gets, the more precious this becomes:
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One's mind
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Nietzsche was troubled by the fact that many teachers or critics forget that the roots of____ were in dance and music.
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Tragedy
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The Apollonian side of the human personality is the side that seeks ___.
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Meaning
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Apollo is _____.
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The Greek god of the Sun.
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A dionysian individual is ____.
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Spontaneous
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Indulging in "popcorn fun" is _____.
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A legitimate way to spend some time.
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Alienation involves:
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Refusing to respond empathetically.
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Recommended as the first step in solving a problem is:
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Determining whether a problem exists.
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The beliefs, often buried, upon which opinions are based and conclusions are drawn are:
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Assumptions
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A framework of circumstances and relationships, which can be an entire historical period or just a sentence is:
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Context
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Madame Butterfly and Miss Saigon have what in common?
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They are both heroines who fall in love with and are betrayed by U.S. Military men.
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"Getting and Spending, we lay waste our powers" is a line from a sonnet by:
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Wordsworth
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The non-critical thinker, or the literalist, receives his label from the habit of NOT seeing:
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General principles
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A critical thinker, whose use of language is characteristically colorful, often playful, filled with metaphors that suggest a greater interest in the general rather than just the particular is called a:
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Figuratist
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