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Question 17: In Chapter 1, _________ is deﬁned as a “framework of social and institutional conditions that facilitates free discussion among equal citizens by providing favorable conditions for participation, association, and expression … Type: Multiple Choice Points Awarded: 0/2 Your Answer(s): Direct Democracy Correct answer: Deliberative Democracy Question 18: Satya Mohanty deﬁnes __________ as theoretical constructions that enable us to read the world in speciﬁc ways. Type: Multiple Choice Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): Identities Question 19: A primary question posed by the author is, “Is there a place where we as transformed citizens and residents of the United States can envision and celebrate ________ without demanding or coercing _________? Type: Multiple Choice Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): Diﬀerence; assimilation Question 20: Charles Taylor argues that the crucial feature of human life is its fundamental dialogical character. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 21: In Chapter 1, Tahvildaran Jesswein points to Toni Morrison’s, Beloved. Speciﬁcally, Morrison is quoted as saying, “Deﬁnitions belong to the deﬁners not the _________. Type: Multiple Choice Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): Deﬁned Question 22: What are the major concepts of the dominant U.S. Democratic Creed? Type: Multiple Choice Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): Individualism; Liberty; Equality; Fraternity Question 23: Our identity is partly shaped by recognition or its absence, often by the misrecognition of other, and so a person or group of people can suﬀer real damage, real distortion, if the people or society around them mirror back to them a conﬁning or demeaning or contemptible picture of themselves. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 24: The author deﬁnes a just democratic politics as a politics that recognizes and respects diﬀerence and aims at connecting one kind of experience with another while ensuring the rights and welfare of all society’s members. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 9: The author deﬁnes a just democratic politics as a politics that recognizes and respects diﬀerence and aims at connecting one kind of experience with another while ensuring the rights and welfare of all society’s members. Points Awarded: 0/2 Your Answer(s): TRUE Question 25: The author suggests that violence, in its many forms, deserves our attention because of the ways it aﬀects identity across diﬀerence lines. What examples are provided in the text? Type: Multiple Choice Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): All of the above Question 15: Anne Phillips suggests that we abandon any desire for an “undiﬀerentiated unity” as the foundation for our democratic politics. Instead we should turn our attention to a _________, comprised of diﬀerent and potentially conﬂicting solidarities. Points Awarded: 0/2 Your Answer(s):  COMPLEX UNITY Question 16: In order to diﬀerentiate U.S. residents/citizens from residents/citizens of other nation-states geographically located in the Western Hemisphere the author uses the term: Points Awarded: 0/2 Your Answer(s):  Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb middle-american

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