The formal cause of a play is:

1. the plot.
2. the actors.
3. the script.
4. the director.


answer: 1

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It is generally agreed that if a public school required all its students to participate in a religious

prayer during school hours, that would violate the First Amendment’s prohibition on the establishment of religion. But many variations on such a practice raise more challenging issues.

What will be an ideal response?

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Negative rights are rights that protect freedoms of various kinds

a. True b. False

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Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. Health care is a basic right. Our current system is convoluted and unethical and should go the way of gladiator

games. We can spar and battle in the free market in many arenas, but when we get sick we should all have care-not just the lawyers, bankers, politicians, and others who can afford it. We like the free market, but we shouldn't let people die in the street-not in this country. Lucius Schoenbaum, Letter to the Editor A) Argument; conclusion: We can spar and battle ... others who can afford it. B) Argument; conclusion: We like the free market ... not in this country. C) Argument; conclusion: Our current system is convoluted ... gladiator games. D) Nonargument. E) Argument; conclusion: Health care is a basic right.

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The text criticized James’s position by suggesting that

a. it is impossible to will ourselves to believe a proposition. b. it will not convince the atheist for whom religious belief is not a live, optional hypothesis. c. there are too many different religious options to know which one merits our faith. d. there is sufficient evidence concerning religious issues such that faith of any sort is unnecessary.

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