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. The colors of all glowing objects have the same origin: They come from atoms and molecules that have been
excited to states of high energy. Atoms in burning fireworks and stars become excited by absorbing energy as heat. They then throw off their excess energy as light. The colors emitted by an atom depend on how its electrons are arranged. So by investigating the colors an atom emits, we can determine its internal structure. Loretta Jones and Peter Atkins, Chemistry, 4th ed.
A) Argument, conclusion: The colors emitted by an atom ... electrons are arranged.
B) Argument, conclusion: The colors of all glowing objects have the same origin.
C) Nonargument.
D) Argument, conclusion: They come from atoms ... states of high energy.
E) Argument; conclusion: By investigating the colors ... its internal structure.
E
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Marxism states
A) capitalism leads to a concentration of property and thus a concentration of resources and power in relatively few hands. B) socialism will eventually be replaced by financial capitalism. C) the means of production should be placed under the control of the bourgeoisie. D) only workers who are poorly paid in a capitalist system are alienated.
Determinism means the same thing as
a) fatalism. b) destiny. c) universal causation. d) chance.
Reflexivity refers to the
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